Journey To Morocco: Fez - A Halachik Discussion of Sulika's Martyrdom

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com [Music] okay let's talk a little bit about salika we know that Celica would not denounce her belief in Judaism she would not officially profess her belief in Islam she considered this an abandonment of the faith of avraham mavino and she gave up her life despite the fact she was putting the entire community in peril and the rough of the city came to salika and said salika well what about Esther Esther lived with in order to save the Jewish people so interestingly salika made a distinction between what Esther did with and the predicament that she was in selika said well Esther never had to abandon the faith of Abraham avinu she is but to actually denounce Judaism and to accept another faith that I'm required to give up my life for now that is a very uh that that is the point that is worthy of our uh analysis because we mentioned when we were at the house of the rambam that the entire basis of the rambam's work igarus hashmad is that a Jew is not required to give up their life in order to save themselves instead one is required to profess their belief in Islam which is not halachically considered Abu dazar according to the rambam so the question is was salika in her viewpoint doing differently than what was recommended by the rambam in the garage after all the rambam's basis of igarus hashimot is that under the circumstances a Jew is required to publicly denounce their belief in Judaism except the faith of Ishmael and practice Judaism in secret so again this is just a story this we don't know exactly what the salika's basis was but I will share with you that it would seem that salika did indeed act correctly not for the reason that she purportedly gave because one in fact is not required or even allowed to give up their life to denounce Judaism and accept Islam however there's a very interesting chuva in the house and she was nice to be Huda about a woman who was under the city was under siege and the Jewish Community was threatened and they were in Peril and the woman had the opportunity to save the City by having illicit relations with the general if she would have uh lived with the general if she would have been nival to the hegemine she would be able to save the city and the question was brought to the attention of whether this woman would be allowed to live with the hegemine in order to save the city following the example of Esther hamalka who lived with to save the Jewish people that it is absolutely forbidden for a woman to live with the Heathen General to save the city says when was it motor for Esther that's only in order to save the entire Jewish people when it's a matter of the well-being of all of Claus Israel then a woman would be allowed to be mazana to save the Jewish people but if it's only one Community if it's only one city then she would not be able to do that so it would seem that what salika did was correct not for the reason mentioned in these story books the reason why she was required to give up her life is because even though the Jewish Community was in Peril but it was only one particular area one particular City and one cannot save a city of Jews by violating one of the three cardinal sins by the way the question arises how was avraham allowed to say about Sarah that she's my sister in order for avram to save his life but according to the night to be Huda one is only allowed to live with the King to save the entirety of the Jewish people and here Sarah was saying to paroi that she's avraham's sister just to save avrah but not to save all of claw Israel and an interest right you got to go to a good question right oh very good there's a concept and there's an idea that um that avraham avino latent in avraham is the entirety of the Jewish people and the proof is Hashem told Abraham I will make you a gray Nation and Rashi says so the Mizrahi asks Hashem promised Abraham you will be a great nation how is that fulfilled by Jewish people saying it like hey Abraham it's a nice praise to avraham but how is it fulfilled by we acknowledging Abraham as La K avraham the answer to the Mizrahi says is God never Associates with an individual so how could Hashem say Eloy K avraham how could we say avraham avram's only an individual says mizraki that demonstrates avraham is not an individual avraham is reckoned the entirety of the Jewish people and they're for Sarah was allowed to live with paroi to save avraham because avraham is considered the entirety of the Jewish people so that would be a little bit of a uh on the decision and the conduct of salika Baruch you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you actor anytime.com