🧵“Rabbi Shimon said: The best of Gentiles – kill!”
Rabbi ‘Ploni’: “Question: How can it be taught [that the best of Gentiles should be killed]? Is it not taught in tractate Avodah Zarah 26a that ‘a Gentile...is not lifted [from a pit to be saved]... (1/3)
Rabbi ‘Ploni’: “Question: How can it be taught [that the best of Gentiles should be killed]? Is it not taught in tractate Avodah Zarah 26a that ‘a Gentile...is not lifted [from a pit to be saved]... (1/3)
...nor pushed [into a pit to be killed],’ [and] thus it is forbidden to kill them [intentionally] with one’s hands? […] One may explain that when it says, ‘The best of Gentiles – kill,’ [it means] when the Jews are in authority [over the Gentiles]; whereas when the... (2/3)
...Gentiles are in authority [over the Jews, one follows] what is in Avodah Zarah 26a, [thereby not intentionally killing the Gentiles].” (3/3)
(Source: Moshav Zekenim ʿal ha-Torah, p. 142)
(Source: Moshav Zekenim ʿal ha-Torah, p. 142)
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