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A Dangerously Ill Patient who Asks for Water, when Drink-
ing is Liable to Hasten his Death............................................. 388
Does a Thief who Slaughtered a Stolen Animal for a Dan-
gerously Ill Patient Incur the Penalty of Four or Five-Fold
Payment?...................................................................................... 391
“The Torah’s Judgments are not Vengeance”........................... 399

283:. FORBIDDEN RELATIONS IN ORDER TO PREVENT AN
IMBECILE’S SUICIDE ............................................................... 408

Separating Mentally Ill Brothers when this Might Lead One
of them to Commit Suicide.......................................................412

284:. SURGERY TO CHANGE A MAN’S GENDER, TO PREVENT
HIM COMMITTING SUICIDE.................................................414

Proposed Solutions to this Problem, based on our Holy Writ-
ings.............................................................................................. 423

285:. SINNING AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING DEPRESSION,
TENSION AND SEVERE EMOTIONAL
DETERIORATION......................................................................427

Is a Jewish Daughter Allowed to Sin with Pure Motiva-
tion?............................................................................................. 433
Desecrating Shabbos in order to Prevent Danger when Deliv-
ering Bad News.......................................................................... 437
When Hakadosh Baruch Hu Sends Misfortune, He also
Bestows the Strength to Bear it............................................... 440

Section 27:

Maintaining Peace

286:. AUTHORIZING EUTHANASIA AND ABORTION FOR
NON-JEWISH PATIENTS......................................................... 445

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