Reply To: Lev Tahor Proclamation

They didn’t kill their own children. They instructed them to let themselves die while being forcibly baptized. Mesiras nefesh does not mean you can kill someone, it means that one must let himself be killed. Can you bring any evidence that parents beyadayim killed their children? The only cases I’m familiar with are where a baby crying would have alerted the nazis to a family in hiding. This was because the baby had the halachik status of a rodef, regardless of intent.

Also, if someone thinks that a child left to the care of a shomer shabbos jew is shmad, they are not thinking seriously, they are using their professed superiority as an excuse. I believe MO is illegitimate and full of heresy, but i would not want my child to die rather than be taken by one such person, nor would any other non-evil person.