Endangering Others to Save Yourself | Shiur by Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a

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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.

this is a complicated Su and a very broad suya which has so many different implications ramifications and it is relevant in two areas most of the sources we have on our sheet deal with monetary issues but the question is also sometimes in our history a question of din I apologize one moment I'm just standing up because I want to put on standing up because I want to put on some more lighting here so I just want to mention two very dark periods in our painful history one is probably the darkest period in the history of the world which is the Holocaust and usually I don't speak in exaggerations I say probably the darkest period in the history of the period in the history of the world and another is also a dark history for the Jewish people and I'll explain what I am referring to the fundamental question is could a person care for his own interests when by doing so he might be causing damage or harm to others and the context of the question is you know when we learn Kish the way Kish the way I was [Music] n and many of you are familiar with my SW especially the new the new publication the new edition of so I am always very careful when we speak about M just to explain to us the other and then M and the other Giants of Y and then M and the other Giants of Y were Not Mere mortal that writes in his introduction to everything they did everything that happened to them any event that took place involving these Giants the Ted and determined the entire future of clisa till the end of

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1. 0:00this is a complicated Su and a very broad suya which has so many different implications…
2. 5:13again in retrospect yes this was the way it needed to be 50% of the shm…
3. 10:22them so as a person entitled to save his own knowing that two other will perish…
4. 15:31somebody else will be taken and his life will be negatively affected is that legitimate or…
5. 20:52taxation so he says this is what I've been saying all along if in this town…
6. 26:40others so coming back to basa the people that threatened to leave town it wasn't a…
7. 32:09and so the two different sources reach the same conclusion and there is also based on…
8. 37:38and he for himself argues we cannot compare mous to neous but actually it's both ways…
9. 42:58to do are we allowed to kill one person to save others no you have no…
10. 48:10mous but the same theoretical question sometimes in our history affected I apologize for one minute…

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