Pikuach nefesh for a non Jew

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4 באוקטובר 2013

הרב המשיב: הרב ד"ר מרדכי הלפרין

שאלה:

Kavod Harav
Is a Jew permitted to break Shabbat (pikuach nefesh) for a non Jew? Specifically:
1. A non-Jew is having a heart attack and needs help – his neighbours are not in the vacinity
2. I have looked in the kitzur shulchan aruch and the shulchan aruch but have not found an answer – perhaps I looked in the wrong place.Please give me chapter and verse
3. Is the answer min HaTorah or min Rabbanan?

Thank you
D

תשובה:

The great Poskim of this generatio n have already ruled to break Shabbat for saving the life of a non-Jew.
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ruled that this holds even if the doctor is alone with the patient. See Nishmat Avraham, Vol. I (Orach Chaim) section 330/8 (end of paragraph 1), Hebrew- new edition, 2007.

 

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