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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: muman613 on October 13, 2010, 01:59:08 AM
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This is excellent news. This Rabbi seems to be interpreting Halacha as it should be.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140048
Sephardi-hareidi Rabbi: Terrorists' Deaths Are Not to be Mourned
Cheshvan 5, 5771, 13 October 10 09:11
by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) A renowned Sephardi-hareidi rabbi has answered the question of how Jews should respond to the deaths of those who have wilfully murdered other Jews. Rabbi Ben-Tzion Mutzafi wrote in reply to a halakhic [Jewish legal] question that it is actually "a mitzva [positive command]" to feel vindicated when proven terrorist murderers are killed.
The question was posed by a friend of Yitzchak and Talia Imes, a Jewish couple from Beit Chaggai who were murdered several weeks ago by terrorists, leaving six children orphans. Two passengers, one of them a pregnant woman, were gunned down as well.
The terrorists who plotted the brutal attack, senior Hamas members Mamoun Natsha and Nashet Naim Carmi, were killed in a clash with IDF troops on Friday.
"Is it forbidden, is it a mitzva, or is it merely permitted to be glad at the killing of the terrorists who murdered our friend Yitzchak Imes, may his memory be for a blessing, his wife, and two Jewish hitchhikers?" the questioner asked. He was alluding to the Jewish belief that even enemies are G-d's creation and therefore even their deaths might be mourned, as the Midrash says G-d told the Jews when the Egyptians perished in the Red Sea and they sang a song of praise to Him.
Rabbi Mutzafi responded that to feel good that murderers have received their due is not only a mitzva, but a great mitzva. He based his response on a verse from Proverbs, which states: "When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; and when the wicked perish, there is joy." [Proverbs 11: 10]
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This is very true and he is right. We are told in the book of Mishlay (Proverbs) that we are to rejoice when are enemies are destroyed. It is HaShem who morns because it's his creation that has been destroyed.
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It would be like mourning a Bris, Bar/Bat-Mitzva or Wedding. That's assuming that the terrorist didn't harm anyone in the process. We still have to mourn the victims, so I can compare it on the same level as a Simcha but any lives that are saved can be rejoiced at an even higher level.