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Lubab:
--- Quote from: newman on February 18, 2008, 10:48:46 AM ---Lubab,
I know that in Judaism a human corpse must be treated with reverence and dignity, but does this apply to rodefim?
I mean in a war, if a bunch of muSSlim-nazis attack a Jewish village and get killed in the process, do Jews have to schvitz in the hot sun burying each one properly or can they be bulldozed into a quicklime ditch as quickly as possible?
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As I understand it, even an evil gentile's body must be buried and treated with respect as even they are created "in the image of G-d".
We treat the body with a certain level of respect even when a person has been killed by the Beit Din for this reason.
Now if you would be endangering more life by doing this burial, or in a time of war where we are defending ourselves I would assume you definitely would not be allowed to do that. But that is because the mitzvah of saving a life overrides that of the burial, but not because the burial is not warranted.
newman:
--- Quote from: lubab on February 18, 2008, 12:56:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: newman on February 18, 2008, 10:48:46 AM ---Lubab,
I know that in Judaism a human corpse must be treated with reverence and dignity, but does this apply to rodefim?
I mean in a war, if a bunch of muSSlim-nazis attack a Jewish village and get killed in the process, do Jews have to schvitz in the hot sun burying each one properly or can they be bulldozed into a quicklime ditch as quickly as possible?
--- End quote ---
As I understand it, even an evil gentile's body must be buried and treated with respect as even they are created "in the image of G-d".
We treat the body with a certain level of respect even when a person has been killed by the Beit Din for this reason.
Now if you would be endangering more life by doing this burial, or in a time of war where we are defending ourselves I would assume you definitely would not be allowed to do that. But that is because the mitzvah of saving a life overrides that of the burial, but not because the burial is not warranted.
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They cremated Eichman (Y'S) and through his ashes in the Med' so his remains wouldn't befoul Israel.
Dexter:
Lulab, why did Chazal decided to write the Yerushalmy Talmud and the Bavli Talmud (Babylonian Talmud) in Arabic ?
Lubab:
--- Quote from: Dexter on February 18, 2008, 01:56:42 PM ---Lulab, why did Chazal decided to write the Yerushalmy Talmud and the Bavli Talmud (Babylonian Talmud) in Arabic ?
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It's not Arabic. It's Aramaic. That was the language the Jews spoke in those days and the Talmud is recording their discussions.
Dexter:
--- Quote from: lubab on February 18, 2008, 02:00:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dexter on February 18, 2008, 01:56:42 PM ---Lulab, why did Chazal decided to write the Yerushalmy Talmud and the Bavli Talmud (Babylonian Talmud) in Arabic ?
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It's not Arabic. It's Aramaic. That was the language the Jews spoke in those days and the Talmud is recording their discussions.
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I meant Aramic.
Why didn't they encoureged talking in Hebrew as other sects of Judaism as the Karatie Jews did (in the 10th century) ?
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