Life versus death! Thou shalt live!!!
When I was Nine Months old, there was a plane crash en-route from Uruguay to Chile, later to be known as the Andes flight disaster ( Tragedia de los Andes ) and the Miracle of the Andes ( Milagro de los Andes ). Since I was so young at the time, how did I learn about it? Well, you might say: "from his stamp collection"; unfortunately, this is not the correct answer... When I was studying the Kosher Dietary Laws, as part of my training to become a Rabbi, one of our Rabbis asked the following (horrible & terrifying) question: "if you were on a plane that crashed, and in order to survive you had to choose between the non-Kosher food in the flight's kitchen, or the dead people - which do you choose"?! The reason for this question is that even though there is a "prime directive" (as I call it) to live in the Commandments; you must choose (if possible) the lesser prohibition. For example, if you have a choice between pork and a chicken that was kill...