Reply To: Should More Mamzerim Be Created?

Suicide is assur. Just as someone killing someone else is assur, someone killing himself is assur. I do not even understand how you can question the possibility of suicide. It is a clear-cut issur.

No, it’s not. R. Yaakov Emden, for example, maintains that one can commit suicide as a kapparah. You may say “we don’t hold like that…” but it’s clearly not as clear-cut as you think it is.

The Wolf