LEV1070 (Continued from [[LEV247]] Leviticus 18:22 abomination DORFFWITO 134-5). The Talmud also includes a story that establishes the principle of one's primary responsibility to save one's own life. “Two people are traveling on a journey [far from civilization], and one has a pitcher of water. [They realize that] if both drink [from it], they will [both] die. But if only one drinks, he can reach civilization. Ben Petura taught: ‘It is better that both should drink and die rather that one should behold his companion’s death,’ until Rabbi Akiva came and taught: ‘that you brother may live with you]’ (Leviticus 25:35), [implying that] your life takes precedence over his life [for only if you are alive can your brother live with you]. Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia 62a.” Based on this principle, the Shulchan Arukh, again following earlier sources, maintains that one must first seek to redeem oneself, then one’s teacher, and then one’s parent. The “teacher” referred to here is not one of many teachers that one has in one’s life but rather the one mentor with whom one lives and studies for all of one's learning after elementary education. As the Mishnah explains elsewhere regarding whose lost object one should search for first (Mishnah, Bava Metzia 2:11 [33a]), one’s teacher deserves to take precedence over one’s father “because one’s father brings one into this world, but one’s teacher brings one into the world to come.” However, in redeeming from captivity, one's mother takes precedence over both one’s father and one’s teacher because of the risk of rape noted above.