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The Sages taught: If there is plague in the city, gather your feet (aka stay home) as it's taught, “none of you shall go out of the opening of his house until the morning.” (Exodus 12:22) Talmud Bava Kamma 60b
And it says in another verse: “Come, my people, enter into your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself for a little moment, until the anger has passed by” (Isaiah 26:20).
Rav Yehuda said Shmuel said.. it states: “You shall keep My statutes and My ordinances, which a person shall do & live by them” (Leviticus 18:5), & not that he should die by them. In all circumstances, one must take care not to die as a result of fulfilling mitzvot. (Yoma 85b)
Rabbi Shimon ben Menasya said: It is stated: “And the children of Israel shall keep Shabbat, to observe Shabbat” (Exodus 31:16).The Torah said: Desecrate one Shabbat on his behalf so he will observe many Shabbatot.
(AKA saving lives comes first.)
(Yoma 85b)
(AKA saving lives comes first.)
(Yoma 85b)
Nothing stands before [the duty of] saving life except for idolatry, incest and murder. (Yoma 82a)
(AKA if someone tells you to murder someone else or they'll kill you, better you should die. But if it's about eating the bacon, eat the damn bacon. Ditto saving others.)
(AKA if someone tells you to murder someone else or they'll kill you, better you should die. But if it's about eating the bacon, eat the damn bacon. Ditto saving others.)
Whenever a person can save another person’s life but fails to do so, he transgresses a negative commandment, as Leviticus 19:16 states: “Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.” Maimonides Laws of The Murderer and Protecting Life 1:14
