rodef - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

Question

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, controversially justified his killing by invoking a Jewish law against these people. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this type of person who must be stopped at all costs according to Jewish law. Far-right Israelis have controversially claimed that Palestinians who voted for Hamas can be treated as these people.

ANSWER: rodef (“ro-DEFF”) [or pursuer; accept din rodef or law of the pursuer]

[10e] Description acceptable. The law of the pursuer in the Babylonian Talmud does not protect people who commit this crime of violating the first Commandment. This sin, called avodah zarah (“ah-vo-DAH za-RAH”), was committed by worshippers of the golden calf.

ANSWER: idolatry [or idol worship; accept any answer indicating not worshipping the God of the Bible or God of the Old Testament or Yahweh or God of Judaism; accept polytheism; accept strange worship; accept paganism or heathenism; prompt on Gentiles or non-Jews]

[10m] Laws against pursuers and idolaters feature in this body of Jewish law, which is mostly sourced from the Babylonian Talmud.

ANSWER: halakha [accept Shulchan Aruch]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	9	17.78	89%	67%	22%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	8.57	86%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	8.75	88%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	11.00	90%	20%	0%

Data


UW B	UBC A	10	10
UBC B	Alberta	10	10
UW A	SFU	10	10