Suicide in Halacha | Weekly Shiur by Harav Asher Weiss Shlit"a | Parshas Noach 5783

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Asher Weiss’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

foreign [Music] foreign this is the prohibition of committing suicide I wish this would be just an abstract sugier fascinating interesting to my terrible dismay and sorrow so in the past few years there were two very famous and high profile cases of suicide in the karate community both caused extreme controversy but our big problem is not famous people there are many many cases of suicide in the film community in Israel and in America and usually it is such embarrassment and August nephesh for the families will always blame themselves sometimes rightfully so and it's always Hush Hush trying to keep it quieter but uh it's a terrible tragedy and it's not like a person getting killed in an avalanche or cancer we always feel futile could have been prevented in many cases so before we go into the sugar the most important thing is to listen and to see and to care nobody commits suicide out of the blue getting up in the morning and decided he wants to die it's always out of extreme desperation we should open our ears and eyes and hearts with the desperation of others to their stress to their feelings parents siblings foreign we should feel the problems the tribulations the feelings the stress the issues that our youngsters have and deal with them before it comes to such a terrible stage but today as every week we learn a sogio so it's a Prohibition an average the Madrid says in this week's spouse without includes killed himself as we learn in climate base when he sees the Polish them coming closer with her bows and arrows and

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1. 4:11ing from the prohibition that they don't explain why it's all different why wasn't sure so…
2. 9:01but fundamentally in his very Essences therefore take your own life is not Lisa it is…
3. 14:09he's being tortured or he's afraid he will be tortured foreign person could take his life…
4. 18:20but I know a young man there was a paraplegic it was a terrible car accident…
5. 22:59according to the second malach wouldn't apply there were no armies there wasn't a war nobody…
6. 27:34offered him do you want me to kill your father and save him from torture give…
7. 31:57the family should sit Shiva because who could judge in a gorgeous cell 200 years ago…
8. 36:35so we all saw the pictures when the World Trade Centers collapsed jumping out of Windows…
9. 41:22almost always ruling was yes so this week is and I want to share a thought…

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