Posted on 01/27/2003 7:37:33 AM PST by yonif
Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef reversed an earlier halachic ruling allowing territorial compromise if it would save lives.
Rabbi Yosef has previously ruled: 'If the heads and commanders of the army, together with the government, state that pikuah nefesh [the saving of life] is involved; that if areas of Eretz Yisrael are not given back the danger exists of immediate war on the part of our Arab neighbors; and if the areas are returned to them the danger of war will be averted; and that there is a chance of permanent peace; then it seems that according to all opinions it is permitted to return areas of Eretz Yisrael in order to achieve this aim, since nothing is more important than pikuah nefesh.'
Yosef now says that territorial compromise endangers lives, therefore is forbidden.
What took him so long to wake up? The Lubavitcher Rebbe OB"M said the same thing in 1982!!
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