My rabbi does not take Jewish law lightly. But he told me the Jewish laws are things God wanted us to live by, not die by, and that saving a life takes precedence over all of them.

我的拉比并不看轻犹太戒律，但他告诉我，上帝希望我们靠这些戒律为生，而不是因这些戒律而死，他还告诉我性命比所有戒律都重要。

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This helps explain why, for example, God was credited for saving Ostrander's life through miraculous, divine intervention, but he was not blamed for the boy's accident.

这也帮助解释了，例如，上帝为什么在这个奇迹中被赞扬救了Ostrander的命，是神圣的干涉，但却不用为男孩遭遇的事故负责。

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Surely God could have simply prevented Ostrander from drowning in the first place, saving his friends and family untold grief and worry (not to mention medical bills).

上帝当然可以一开始就别让Ostrander溺水，省下他朋友和家人的痛苦与担心(更不用说药片了)。

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And you could never imagine that he would be somebody that people would listen to on the radio, hour after hour, because that's how long he talked; or that when Stauffenberg tries to kill him in 1944 the Germans would pour out of the-- into the street to thank god for saving the Fuhrer.

你根本就无法想像人们会在,收音机上听他讲话,听好几个小时,因为他讲话就讲那么长时间,或者在1944年,史陶芬博格想要刺杀他的时候德国人会冲到,到大街上感谢上帝拯救他们的元首

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But your speaking out, Diane, and so many survivors like you are literally saving the lives of so many other women who, God willing, will be able to avoid the abuse that you had to put up with.

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