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==Endangering Yourself to Save Someone Else== | ==Endangering Yourself to Save Someone Else== | ||
# Most poskim hold that it is permissible but not obligatory to endanger oneself in a possibility of danger (''safek sakana'') to save someone else from certain danger.<ref>Mishna Brurah 329:19</ref> | # Most poskim hold that it is permissible but not obligatory to endanger oneself in a possibility of danger (''safek sakana'') to save someone else from certain danger.<ref>Mishna Brurah 329:19, Rav Asher Weiss (Minchat Asher 1:115)</ref> | ||
## Some poskim hold that it is an obligation to endanger oneself to save someone else.<ref>Hagahot Maimoniyot cited by Bet Yosef CM 426:2</ref> | ## Some poskim hold that it is an obligation to endanger oneself to save someone else.<ref>Hagahot Maimoniyot cited by Bet Yosef CM 426:2</ref> | ||
## A minority opinion holds that it is forbidden to endanger oneself to save someone else.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Harav 329:8</ref> | ## A minority opinion holds that it is forbidden to endanger oneself to save someone else.<ref>Shulchan Aruch Harav 329:8</ref> | ||
