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In other words, if the "good as dead" person is not released from the mitzvos, he doesn't qualify as "dead"; yet, if killing the same person would not qualify as "murder", he is not "alive": this, then, would qualify as a distinct "state" (neither "dead" nor "alive").

This question actually opens up a whole new vista: the judgments, in general, then, can be highly subjective. This is highly interesting, and a little unsettling! Reply

Clarification By the way, I was not in any way implying that the death of a Jew in the Shoah was "spilling blood" (a concept Rabbi Mendel Kaplan discusses in the lecture). G-d forbid.
I was just using an example of "imminency of death equalling death", and then asking whether those who were counted "as good as dead" would be released from obligation to observe the Mitzvos--whether the "imminency of death equalling death" would qualify the person for being released from obligation to observe Mitzvos by that "death" (and "resurrection"--as Rabbi Kaplan says the episode of the men bitten by the serpents, but who lived after beholding the copper serpent, was viewed as a type of "resurrection").
I guess I didn't really think it through well enough--never intended to say the death of a Jew in the Shoah was something less than murder. No. G-d forbid. Reply

When "Murder" Becomes "Spilling Blood"... 1. What qualifies as "as good as dead"?
Would conditions in the Shoah?
Isn't "as good as dead" relative and subjective?
Ex: If someone has a disease in a first-world that normally kills someone in the third-world is the man in the first-world "as good as dead"?

2. If killing such a man who was destined to perish whether you killed him or not has the power to transform "murder" into "spilling blood", would those "as good as dead" men have been released from obligation to observe Mitzvos ("the Law applies only to the living person")? Reply

Copper? Is the snake made of copper or bronze? Reply

The manna k'lokal = ki LO CAL
because low calorie!! Reply

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