Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 169:15

נענה ר"ע ואמר (שמות כא, יד) וכי יזיד איש על רעהו וגו' מעם מזבחי תקחנו למות מעם מזבחי ולא מעל מזבחי ואמר רבה בר בר חנה אמר רבי יוחנן לא שנו אלא להמית

Then this question was asked of them: Whence do we know that in the case of danger to human life the laws of the Sabbath are suspended? - R'Ishmael answered and said: If a thief be found breaking in.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXII, 1, in which case, in spite of all the other considerations, it is lawful to kill him.');">²¹</span> Now if in the case of this one it is doubtful whether he has come to take money or life; and although the shedding of blood pollutes the land, so that the Shechinah departs from Israel, yet it is lawful to save oneself at the cost of his life - how much more may one suspend the laws of the Sabbath to save human life! R'Akiba answered and said: If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour etc. thou shalt take him from My altar, that he may die.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXI, 14.');">²²</span> I. e. , only off the altar, but n down from the altar.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he came as priest to do his service, one may take him off the altar, but if he had commenced on it, one may not take him down.');">²³</span> And in connection therewith Rabbah B'Bar Hana said in the name of R'Johanan: That was taught only when one's life is to be forfeited,

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