07-01-2025, 01:15 AM
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https://israel365news.com/410001/the-tur...ss-aliyah/
aliyah is salvation from this world...of Hamas Esau and Ishamael
Jewish Population in Europe going down
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...opulation/
Mendel Adelman | Chabad.org <mail_co8263845_6268010@chabad.org>
Jul 3, 2025, 11:09 AM (19 hours ago)
to me
Hi ,
May Hashem bring peace to the world and the Moshiach so that all Jews will return to Israel!
My reply
May all Jews In Galat indeed heed the L-D and go up to Israel in these troubling times
O Israel do not follow Ben gurions ways:
If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in
Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of
them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for
the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of
these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.
Source: (Gelber, Yoav, “Zionism and the Fate of European Jewry (1939-42),” Yad Vashem Studies, vol. XII, p 171.)
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Be...hem-to-the
Ben guirononce remarked that if Jewish CHildren from Germany were to be saved..that he would only save those who went up to live up in Israel..as it was more important that those who went up to Israel to build to have a future state for jews to live in and that the others are not worth saving as they do not go up to Israel..such an attitiude goes gainst rabbanic ruling that saving 1 live is as important as saving the world?
The rabbinic statement, found in the Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5 (also in the Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 37a), declares: "Whoever destroys a single life is considered to have destroyed an entire world; and whoever saves a single life is considered to have saved an entire world".
This principle, known as pikuach nefesh (the preservation of human life), is a cornerstone of Jewish law and ethics, meaning that saving a life overrides almost all other religious commandments.
Regarding the interpretation of "not picking and choosing":
Infinite Value of Each Life: The core interpretation is that every individual life has infinite and equal value, regardless of the person's status, age, or potential future contributions. A "fraction of infinity is still infinity," so you cannot devalue one life against another.
Obligation to Save: The principle creates an absolute mandate to save a life when one has the means to do so, without complex calculations of worthiness or potential future lives saved. The focus is on the identified person whose life is in immediate danger, rather than abstract population statistics.
Therefore, the interpretation aligns with your suggestion: if you have the means to save a life, you have a mandate to act because that single life is a whole world. The principle emphasizes the equal sanctity of all human life and generally prohibits one from making arbitrary choices about whose life is more valuable than another's when both are in danger.
In essence, if you have the means to save one or many lives, the ruling dictates that the obligation to save a life supersedes nearly all other considerations, and the inherent, equal value of each life means you must not engage in a qualitative assessment or "pick and choose" who is more worthy of saving. You are obligated to save whomever you can.
Hi T,Hi
aliyah is salvation from this world...of Hamas Esau and Ishamael
Jewish Population in Europe going down
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...opulation/
Mendel Adelman | Chabad.org <mail_co8263845_6268010@chabad.org>
Jul 3, 2025, 11:09 AM (19 hours ago)
to me
Hi ,
May Hashem bring peace to the world and the Moshiach so that all Jews will return to Israel!
My reply
May all Jews In Galat indeed heed the L-D and go up to Israel in these troubling times
O Israel do not follow Ben gurions ways:
If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in
Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of
them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for
the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of
these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.
Source: (Gelber, Yoav, “Zionism and the Fate of European Jewry (1939-42),” Yad Vashem Studies, vol. XII, p 171.)
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Be...hem-to-the
Ben guirononce remarked that if Jewish CHildren from Germany were to be saved..that he would only save those who went up to live up in Israel..as it was more important that those who went up to Israel to build to have a future state for jews to live in and that the others are not worth saving as they do not go up to Israel..such an attitiude goes gainst rabbanic ruling that saving 1 live is as important as saving the world?
The rabbinic statement, found in the Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5 (also in the Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 37a), declares: "Whoever destroys a single life is considered to have destroyed an entire world; and whoever saves a single life is considered to have saved an entire world".
This principle, known as pikuach nefesh (the preservation of human life), is a cornerstone of Jewish law and ethics, meaning that saving a life overrides almost all other religious commandments.
Regarding the interpretation of "not picking and choosing":
Infinite Value of Each Life: The core interpretation is that every individual life has infinite and equal value, regardless of the person's status, age, or potential future contributions. A "fraction of infinity is still infinity," so you cannot devalue one life against another.
Obligation to Save: The principle creates an absolute mandate to save a life when one has the means to do so, without complex calculations of worthiness or potential future lives saved. The focus is on the identified person whose life is in immediate danger, rather than abstract population statistics.
Therefore, the interpretation aligns with your suggestion: if you have the means to save a life, you have a mandate to act because that single life is a whole world. The principle emphasizes the equal sanctity of all human life and generally prohibits one from making arbitrary choices about whose life is more valuable than another's when both are in danger.
In essence, if you have the means to save one or many lives, the ruling dictates that the obligation to save a life supersedes nearly all other considerations, and the inherent, equal value of each life means you must not engage in a qualitative assessment or "pick and choose" who is more worthy of saving. You are obligated to save whomever you can.
Hi T,Hi