Rambam Mishneh Torah Q & A: Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah Chapter 5

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

any jew and we will not kill you if you do not we kill all of you what's they all have to yeah why why not take onejew and give him up so we could save the rest of the community it's a big question says the quest of mishnah perhaps it's the same principle that we discussed throughout my houses a jew comes to rave and says the governor said kill another jew and if governor said kill another jew and if not he kills me so there are other says why do you think your blood is more red than his blood maybe his blood is more red than your blood as rashi explains you're allowed to violate any mitzvah in order to save a life but here you're destroying your life to save a life who says your life is more significant in his life maybe his life is more secure within his life who says that he should die in order that you should live maybe you should die in order that he should live now again we're not going to say that he's more significant than you and you should die for him to live but here you want to do an act of murder it always says so the case of mission says that's the

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1. 0:33any jew and we will not kill you if you do not we kill all of…
2. 4:06so if they kill everybody they're certainly going to go kill him so the question for…
3. 8:15you destroy one life you destroy the universe and the gemara the mission says where do…
4. 12:21the shot is even in that case it seems there's two aspects number one i still…
5. 15:56and how do they agree with this well the spanish inquisition just like the crusaders and…
6. 20:03it's conversa you're taking a jew and giving him to die this jew is gonna die…
7. 24:05better a little clearer the gentile who's coming and forcing me or the other jew to…
8. 27:40and therefore over there over here i get punished this person writes in a comment what…
9. 31:45one finished his canteen of water now if you share it with the other person you're…
10. 35:52it's not a it's not a question of statistics it's a question of a whole world…

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