"According
to Halacha (Jewish law), we are not allowed to save a goy (non-Jew)
from death. For example, if one sees a goy drowning in a river and he
cries to the Jew that he should rescue him by throwing the safety ring,
if no other goy will ever know that this cry was ignored and no danger
will emerge from it to Jews, the Jew is not allowed to throw the safety
ring according to the Halacha"
Syrian chemical weapons victims
A reader writes:
After a writer wrote on the Yiddish website iVelt.com that Jews need to help the people of Syria, and that it will be a sanctification of God's name if Jews try to help, iVelt contributor An'im Zemiros wrote the following (translated from Yiddish):
The glory of God and the sanctification of His name can only happen by doing God's wishes. According to Halacha (Jewish law), we are not allowed to save a goy (non-Jew) from death. For example, if one sees a goy drowning in a river and he cries to the Jew that he should rescue him by throwing the safety ring, if no other goy will ever know that this cry was ignored and no danger will emerge from it to Jews, the Jew is not allowed to throw the safety ring according to the Halacha.Sanctification of God's name does not mean to imitate the goy or find favor in his eyes, it means to follow the code of Jewish law, in all its details.
After several contributors applauded the comment, but wrote that the Internet is not the place to write this law, because it can be picked up by non-Jews, the comment was removed.
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[Hat Tip: C.O.]