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See the long narrative of this anecdote in Chronicle A (Haberman, Sefer Gezerot, 37-8). 25 See below, the responsum of R. Meir of Rothenburg. I. Yuval, "Yehudim, Hussitim ve-Germanim al pi ha-Khronikah 'Gilgul Benei Hushim'," gort 54, 1989, 316. 26 the first half of the fifteenth century. 27 Not only did the rabbi see in slaughtering children a legitimate form of martyrdom, but so did the writer of the chronicle, Rabbi Zalman of St. MaHaRIL). 28 We can, without much difficulty, add cases of active martyrdom until the fourteenth century.

He wanted to kill himself together with them, but God saved him through some Gentiles. MaHaRaM responded to him: I do not have a definite answer to this query. ] 3 8 and there are many such 35 For a sharp invective against rabbis who objected to the recital of piyyutim during prayer and were silenced to the point of complete anonymity of their identity and even of their argumentation, see: I. Ta-Shma, Minhag Ashkenaz ha-Qadmon, Jerusalem, 1992, 90. 37 Salfeld, Martyrologium, 15. 38 Here MaHaRaM brings three proofs; the Aiidrash about King Saul, the story about the four hundred children who were captured and shipped to Rome (B.

And appears in the Books of Maccabees. ). *‫ יי‬Here MaHaRaM tries halfheartedly to bring an original proof from the Midrash about King Saul. He does this by extending the exception of Saul to the beginning of the biblical verse as well which deals with plain murder: in cases such as Saul's one can even murder. Z. ], Jerusalem, 1960, 54. I have used some of the translation supplied in: I. Agus, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg II, Philadelphia, 1947, 679. the problem. But for the dilemma at hand, he could not adduce any halakhic precedents or explicit halakhic tradition.

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