Noach : Euthanasia in Halacha

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com we're going to have a very interesting subject this morning which is closely linked to one of the circus Parsha and also give us an opportunity to um look into a most profound concept and hopefully you will also have something to say over at the Shadows table so deposit tells us Ed rice but your blood for your souls Ed rice I will seek out I will seek it out from any animal in other words even an animal who takes the life of a human will be held responsible now look carefully um from the hand of a person from the hands of his brother education I will seek out the life of a person so the first thing we need to notice is the fact that the Torah utilizes the language Ed rice jarisha seeking out which is a very unusual expression but aside from that he possibly mentions two things it says who will be responsible for killing number one a person and number two miyadish octave number two a person okay so that we understand what are these two expressions who's liable for killing number one miyadha Adam and number two this is comes along the xavaha Kabbalah and like Sava Cabello offers us a tremendous explanation Mecklenburg that's his nature the nature of an animal is to kill it could be but he'll still be held responsible well that makes me a very short amount of time let's try to go through this tells us the Torah is repetitive first it says Adam and then it says this it says and it says when it comes to the word ish the Tara adjoins it with which word it says and then it says it appears to me there are two types of murder number one you want to kill someone you want to you hate them you hate their guts you want to take revenge or you kill someone you want to take their money right you hope that you hope you don't get caught right you hope the glove the glove doesn't fit but people could murder for various reasons for various improper reasons but there's another reason you may want to kill some and what is that maybe you could kill for the benefit of the one who was killed all they're suffering terribly right they're suffering terribly and you want to spare them the misery and they choose death over life and we have instances of this um said to the kid Unleash Your sword and kill me okay please stand up and kill me so we have baby we have instances of this this is called mercy killing or euthanasia right euthanasia means mercy killing or in Hebrew euthanasia is what we call red sauce killing and of Mercy right but the word euthanasia is a Greek word well which means mercy killing the first euthanasia Society was it was established in 1938 um the first euthanasia Society of America is founded by a guy by the name of Charles Francis Parker however BisMan has led the law in most countries is euthanasia is prohibited so now these societies they spend most of their time educating people on the benefits of euthanasia and throughout the Amer you know recent American history there have been jury trials where a husband will kill a wife never She's suffering terribly and often the jury will have mercy on the husband because it's understandable if it's a it's a human compassion feels for these type of cases so what does the Torah have to say about this type of murder says [Music] the Torah speaks of both of these types of murder that's someone who's killing for the best right to harm the one who's being killed hanasara Adam with being done out of the low character of men so y'all married says about this from the hand of man because Adam is an expression used when you're talking about the more base element of human character for instance we have in this week's PowerShot Hashem lerois so the first type of murder killing to harm is called because here a human being is acting with his base element but regarding what the second type of killing hanasa which is being performed with the consent of the one being murdered and for his benefit ashwagam is even someone on a very high level May perform an act like this he could even be a friend of the nerta in other words there are two types of murder this other when someone's coming as a bad person with his base character to kill and then there's miyadish ish implies a higher level why would an ish ever kill Anish would kill to benefit the one being murdered where he's acting as achev he's doing out of Ava he's doing out of love in both of these cases the Torah says it is prohibited the person who thinks even asks a person that doesn't have the right because doesn't give the the right okay so good that's what you're borrowing the shama you're borrowing the book you're renting it when you return a rental car you got to return good good right that's what the teller is saying the Torah is saying both forms of murder are prohibited is number one that's the first type of is the second type is the second type these are these are the two types okay Rabbi so this is the topic we have not discussed before although we have touched on the lesson of jarisha before but that's what they start saying there are two types of there's Mian where the person's acting not as a lowly Adam he's acting on a higher level of ish and he's acting as out of love so there's no question Brad there are no instances that it's permitted you can't do this what's the guy say someone who is teetering right he's near death he's considered alive you can't touch his jaw you can anoint him with anything you can rinse him off you can't clean him you can't remove the pillow he's alive and if you touch him ever so slightly you may end up what killing him and that's where the shock writes also lastly you're not allowed to do anything that brings a person's death any closer because we do not believe in quality of life it's a matter of fact thank you is that why you don't touch and I've got to touch the ghost things that's correct okay you may kill him you can't touch the ghost that's what it's a chill on the test hello so that's another story we saying to heal him yeah we saying to him Domino says I'll turn that off to be a ghost 6 means that you really be your death near death so you can't touch them you may you may that may be the the last straw yeah yeah guys that's why Devin MLK says until him Domino I think the euthanasia Society is after us over here or something but yeah could give me retribution the revolution could give me afflictions but voila right um to be alive that's the greatest brother however there is a something that drama tells us there are not says something very interesting they used to believe that if we're loud noises the person couldn't die you know they were startled by the noise that kept them alive so let's see how a wood Shopper chopping wood and you have a guy who's a guy says and he's in a misery you're allowed to tell the wood Chopper to stop chopping why because you're not killing the guy you're just removing that thing that's preventing him from going okay that's what drama says in number six if there is something that's preventing someone from dying could go into your stomach likes the bias called deifique somebody's car alarm went off or somebody's uh was chopping wood the guy had salt on his tongue and somehow the salt on his tongue was stopping him from leaving this world so we will they will Mark when it says and these things are stopping him from uh leaving this world you could remove it because that's not called killing him you're just removing the deterrent of his knees our person is on the machine that's keeping him alive and you remove the machine you're not necessarily killing him it's an old child I know I know so that that might be different than this case because that that machine is keeping him alive in this case the the wood is not keeping them alive it's just stopping him from dying that that might be different okay so we would like to look into it document yeah what about it on a whale on an animal um let us look into the following let's look into the following issue let's stay here where are we now told us he gave us examples of stories in Tanakh where people asked to be killed to be put out of their misery one of the stories that the Sava kabala cites is the story of when Shalom was in his final battle so and he saw that the results were inevitable the posit says at the end of shmuel aleph look at number seven told his weapon barrier please unleash right your sword the dog stabbed me perhaps these glamor gonna come with the karini the saluvi they're gonna mock me okay so that she'll ask someone to kill him so the question is it was shawl allowed to ask someone to kill him I saw again euthanasia is prohibited right that's what the time is saying according it's not just the last it's not just the logic according to the Sabbath that's one type of murder even out of Ava but we want to know did Shaw have any Hector to do what he was doing so we have a mattress yeah he is no why not show this youth in Israel yes they wasn't uh on the gates of death he was hit by the yes he was in the gates of death no noises he he was inevitable it was in battle the enemy was surrounding him it was only a matter of a few moments before they would get him so it's all enough to be he didn't want to be mocked he didn't want to be uh desecrated so he wanted to know maybe could he die in dignity okay so actually the matter says even though this says that murder is awesome and what we call euthanasia is also it says Ah what does AH mean s meaning but there's an exception to the rule so the matter says yeah what's the exception this is talking about suicide you can't kill yourself I would think like ah situation that's the exception to the rule it was permitted that's a simple way of reading the mattress the that's the Kingdom on this week's Parsha brings down two ways of reading this marriage nine the that's the candidate number nine he brings down [Music] number nine on the fourth line Thomas meaning in a time where if they're going to get a hold of you they'll take away the religion or the or they'll desecrate you or they'll mock you yeah you could deliver yourself over to death you could kill yourself the same Michelle then Kish that like we find by shovel Kish that's what it means ah means in shawl situation it was different it was different it was permitted like we fun like we find in the game those boys were taken over in the ba in the boat in the boat and they were afraid that they were going to be taken over for lewitt practices so they jumped off the boat but then the Dasa Cannon brings down a few lines down the Asia Iceman there are those who ask her and they say avalino you're not permitted to kill yourself I would think that you could do it in Charlotte's situation ah means you have no right to hurt yourself at all what about Shoal this song did the wrong thing so we have a machlaikus with Russia euthanasia again is prohibited but even in Shaw's situation even so there is did the wrong thing okay here now we want to know eventually what happened to Saul well let's see a little bit further on and say for sure let's see a little bit further on and say for small the plastic says meets a kid meets the kid he said Amy's where you from because this kid had said he met shawl on the battlefield and Shaw said please kill me and the kids said I killed Sean so he says to David you know who I am you know Ben is I'm the son of a man who's a convert from amalek to kill the anointed one of God and what does David do he kills him well he didn't kill him but I don't understand how could David kill him but Shaw asked the kid to kill him but the kid didn't kill him yeah he did oh yeah he fell on it but if you look a little further after he fell on it he wasn't dead the amaleki killed him this kid he then yeah why would y'all have a gun he's a guest yeah he's a kid yeah right they're the best warriors Rabbi say well let's finish up over here so the question is the question is how is David Hamilton kill him listen to this how is David allowed to kill him but this guy was only listening to Sean Shaw asked him to kill him so if the king says kill me don't you listen so they're al-bag asks this question yes Maya number 11 mat Dua Siva David lahargo why did David command to kill him they were only acceding to the request of Shaw you know what the answer is because the same way if someone says oh my dear friend Roberto could you punch me in the face are you allowed to listen to him no so so too if somebody says please kill me you know how to listen to them I but it's the king it doesn't matter it's the king you can't listen to them a person it doesn't matter who it is it could be the goddaughter it could be the Malachi if they ask you to kill them you're not allowed to listen and here we come to a Most Fascinating comment on the plastic that we started off with Channel um and this is from the safer my Adam from rev7 and round seven points out this is very interesting this language what does drisha mean a claim on something that you have that doesn't belong to you and belongs to me and I want it back but what does Theresa mean Teresa means you have something that belongs to me give it back we do not find this expression by any Avera benadam you have it by Bennett God will visit right foreign it says so when it comes I'll visit punishment on you but in this past look it's not talking about it's talking about between you and you between it's not something bad between you and your friend it's talking about between you and God is God is saying I'm gonna get it back when he's gonna get it back he should say I'll punish you the Musa whenever we use the Expression you want to close the door we only find the expression jerisha when we're talking about getting something back from someone else in my mind all right Netflix right you if you find a lost object you should hold on to it until when until your brother seeks to death what does that mean till he seeks back what belongs to him in your possession I will seek out my sheep from your hands foreign what address you know we see from here then when a person takes his life this is not just anavera between you know Hashem says I don't want you to take your life God says I have something that you took away from me I want it back what is that thing your life in other words the Torah is saying that a person's life does not belong to them it belongs to God and if a person misappropriates his life God says Ed rice you have something in your possession that belongs to me what can we say that he's allowed to it though because of he's gonna get mocked their limited Circle their limited circumstances where it's permitted but in general the person's life is not something that a person has writes over say over I raise them what does it show that a person's looking next paragraph about them the fact that the Torah utilizes this expression you have something in your possession that belongs to me and that's what the rambam writes like this ramam says that if a murderer comes to the best and says come on let me off the hook I'll give you a hundred million dollars on and you know I'll put up 10 yeshivas right it says even if he gives all the money in the world why says you know what I'm not gonna kill her I'm not going to kill the murderer I'll have rahmanas on him because a girl Adam say that no no he's not right to do that you know why because it's not his son it's like you're it's not my life it's not up to me this you took away something that belonged to God and God wants a bank now very interesting very interesting what's up person comes into Basin and he says I lived with my sister I uh I'm a murderer I committed adultery I served that by the Zara do we kill him no why not there's no there's no age who made the last one for one second what if a person comes and says what if Zelda comes into the car and says Rabbi I owe you a million dollars so what the hell up I collect it why could a person testify about himself or not because the mother used his but that's their advice their advice says and their advice comments on the rambam that a person what if a person comes in and says you know I wore shadness could it behind himself Marcus no no why not says they're advisors a person's life is not his Allah and that is why that is why very interesting they're advances like this the person cannot behind himself Misa person cannot be makhive himself money Marcus for money the money belongs to you this is my money my credit card I could do whatever I want if I want to say that I owe you a million dollars That's My Prerogative my money belongs to me I could do whatever I want with my money if I want to give it up I have my title to but my life is not mine it's not my life how could ever invest in decide they're going to kill somebody because it's not because I shouldn't tell them to but the the lesson of Ed rice this expression Hashem says I don't look at when I give life to man as I'm giving you something and you know it's an empty check do whatever you want with it like you know Citibank they used to have an advertisement on their check boxes life the ultimate blank check remember that it's a great expression right well what's greater than a blank check you can do whatever you want you can make a person can make his life worth ten dollars a hundred dollars a billion dollars like you can make whatever you want out of it the only thing is it's not a blank check it's not it's not a blank check you know why because you can't do whatever you want with it it doesn't belong to you you're a custodian you're a guardian you're an apotropist you're a sheimer but it's not yours your money is yours do whatever you want you want to buy you want to invest in this thing and that thing that's up to you discern guidelines but life life a person has no say is only by money but not by life okay back to Charlotte for a minute the guy wasn't allowed to do it so if we just said that a person cannot testify about themselves so then how could govern her mouth kill this kid who claims he killed shawl but how did the David see him no how does David know he killed Shaw because he said so but I thought we don't accept the testimony of someone about capital offense because their life is the does not belong to him yeah so like this look number 13 turnover that this garam Maliki you know who he was look what he writes yes this was good old day egg now Doug already had a long track record right he already had a bad criminal record he killed out he was responsible for the death of noivera akohana so David didn't kill him because he admitted that he killed Saul can't kill someone if they admit they killed Shaw why now Rashi brings down this shot Rashi doesn't like it no I don't I don't accept it [Music] as a King David has the right to to kill yes of course no no no she'll just die no no no first of all David was already anointed he was only waiting for Shaw to die but when Shaw died so now every now is everything is in place very interesting yeah very interesting the Rambo yeah well if you're dead UK right if you're dead you can't be the king okay look in the ram I'm Looking Over 15. The Ramen says something very interesting the ramen says doesn't kills by a person's admission LLP sneeze them you need a testimony ah if you need testimony how could yahshua kill akhan how could David kill the guy Maliki the zesty by dos PM the answers it was a one-time leniency it was a hirosha the times called for it so even though halachically technically speaking wasn't allowed to do it it was a hirosha or I didn't say as King in capacity of as commander-in-chief he was authorized to kill without um without testimony it's crazy ah the mountain wants to say a tremendous ready for this the album wants to say that if you say this guy was an it was really an amaleky the malvin says listen to this even though you can't kill a Jew based on a Jew's own testimony when it comes to a guy you could Garrett may just mean Geck he lived God come in here he lift their tube shot him either guy Malaki means he was an actual convert or gambling he was a Sojourner in the land of the amalekim so if you say like that the maabon wants to say look at number 17. if you remember a guy do you need to warn a guy to kill him no no then there I got fellowship if a guy kills someone who's gonna die in a minute anyway did we kill him yeah a guy who kills the tree first to kill a girl you only need one judge you only need one witness so you could say that since this girl Maliki was a guy we say that they could be miter they committed an offense and we will kill them now the malbum is a little reluctant to say this she says this is not like the Rama the Rama was bothered by a question the Rama wants to know how could foreign didn't want to say well this guy on Maliki uh he was a guy and we said Baldin or maybe because around them healthy was a Jew but nevertheless this is a very big Kush that the album is advancing but nevertheless if you look in the safe says among the distinctions between carliso and the other nations of the world number one a Jew cannot behaved without Aiden a Jew needs warning but other nations others they don't need warning there's no difference whether they act beside your government and look what he says all right a guy who admits to a capital offense we will accept that testimony Rabbi Say in any event we learned two very important things from this FASA the fact that Authority peace the Torah is saying there is two types of Murder One Is Murder out of Sinner and then there's murder out of ABBA murder out of Ava is also Usher but then the Torah is teaching us a very important thing by employing this lotion of Ed rice Ed rice is usually only employed if I want back something that I have and their brother shalom says yes in this situation when it comes to human life the word Edwards is absolutely appropriate because when it comes to someone's life this is not something that belongs to you and I just don't like what you're doing with it it doesn't belong to you God says I will seek out that which you have in your possession that does not belong to you that is the lesson of Edwards you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you factoriaanytime.com