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can he arrest or ticket other jews for non-halachic crimes? speeding by going 70mph instead of 55mph on highway to catch a minyan for example? can he show disrespect to a kohen if he is not a kohen by arresting him or ticketing him?
#of course,
I see no reason why not!
All these laws are made for our safety.
So, even if a man is running late to a minyan and above the limit, that’s not called miseras nefesh, it’s called endangering other nefashos.
#simple as that.
#I happen to know a couple Jewish policemen, all doing their jobs like they should.
And just cuz’ someone’s a kohen, doesn’t exempt him from following laws of the country they live in, unless it goes against our torah, which it doesn’t.
Wait, is a kohen generally not chayav in v’kidashto?
Being that which you mentioned is, in fact, against halacha (dina demalchusa dina)…
Btw if some yid is driving over speed limit it might b a chiuv to call cops
1to save him from…….
2to save others
3like plumer said
Etc…….
There is a frum guy in boro park who is in the nypd on street patrol
” non-halachic crimes? speeding by going 70mph instead of 55mph on highway to catch a minyan for example?”
I don’t see why that is a non-halachic crime. Risking your life and the lives of others to catch a minyan is at best a mitzvah ha-ba b’aveirah!
My friend’s female relative is a frum police officer who has to (and is allowed, by idk whom) to wear pants for her job.
That was an old “sugya” in gemarah. I think we pasken ??? ??? ???? ????? ?? ?????, but I’m not sure. Any Talmudicians here?
Absolutely not. An officer is the janitor of police hierarchy. Obviously not every jew can be a commissioner, but at a minimum must be at least a lieutenant.
Risking your life and the lives of others to catch a minyan is at best a mitzvah ha-ba b’aveirah!
What about going 70 on the Pallisades, is that also ‘risking your life’?
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