03/09/2026
Rabbi Elijah Mizrachi zt"I Talmudist and posek, an authority on Halakha, and a mathematician.
In his commentary on Exodus 21:12, Rabbi Mizrachi states that in principle feticide and murder are indistinguishable. The biblical ban on murder extends equally to all human life, including, he claims, any fetal life which, unmolested, would develop into a viable human being. In theory, continues Mizrachi, feticide should be punishable by death since the majority of all fetuses will indeed develop into viable human beings.
Most interesting is the sharply contested view advanced by R. Elijah Mizrachi, in his commentary on Exodus 21:12, that in principle feticide and murder are...
