The Ethical Halachic Dilemma of Releasing Terrorists in Exchange for Hostages | by Rav Asher Weiss

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nothing is more current right now than the big dilemma ethical H dilemma of freeing terrorists to bring our children back home so in the past usually it was soldiers and today many soldiers are in captivity by the Kamas but also innocent women children our soldiers are as innocent as as the women and children but still might be a difference between women and children that are out there civilians and soldiers so I dealt with this question many times before ISAT Shalit when Israel definitely made a mistake in retrospect by releasing 1,000 terrorists for one soldier and I think hundreds of Jews p pag with their lives for that deal and most of the leaders of the Sim tragedy were released by Israel in that deal but today we speak about the perspective and the conclusion of today's she might surprise you but let's embark on our journey to discuss this question there fundamentally two different sugas that might be relevant one is a and one is so the mishna deals directly with the situation in which Jews are in captivity and custody by the go and they demand a ransom how much do we pay and the mishna says you do not overpay what is a reasonable price fundamentally the reasonable price is how much is this person worth as a slave on the slave market are all you from America no no just two of us just two of you only two but all the others probably are from American parents Mexico Canada England so Americans went to elementary school knows what it means to be sold down the

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