What If a Gentile is Forced?
Warning: This sensitive topic speaks about murder and injury
Divine Code for December 6, 2022
Today: Pages 334
Part 2:6 -- 2:9
Although a Gentile is not obligated to sacrifice his life for the sanctification of G-d's Name (i.e. to avoid committing idolatry or one of the other capital sins prohibited by the Noahide commandments, at the cost of his life), it is permissible for him to do so, and this is not considered suicide. It appears that this applies even if he is being forced to transgress the commandment in private.
Likewise, if one is being forces through torture to transgress one of the Seven Noahide Commandments, and is unsure whether he will be capable to withstand the suffering, it is permissible for him to take his life so as not to transgress, and this is not considered suicide. This permission only applies to avoiding a transgression for which a Gentile would be liable to capital punishment in a Noahide court, if it were committed willfully.
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