Reply To: Is An Amalekite Allowed to Commit Suicide?

Yes, suicide and even making himself bleed is included in it.

I highly doubt the latter portion of your statement.

If so, then a non-Jew throughout history was forbidden to go to a doctor, since it usually involved bloodletting.

In addition, you’d also have to posit that every non-Jewish doctor, nurse, dentist, phelobotimist, etc. is worthy of death for doing their job.

Lastly, I have not heard of any case where someone who was in these fields and in the process of converting was told “you have to quit your work until you finish the conversion because it’s forbidden for you to make someone bleed.”

Lastly, we have a general rule (mentioned in the Gemara in Sanhedrin) that there is nothing that is forbidden to a non-Jew but permitted to a Jew. As such, since a Jew is allowed to make himself/others bleed (in the right circumstances) I would have to posit that it is also permitted for a non-Jew to do so.

The Wolf