Self-defense is not only permitted by the Torah, it is actually encouraged
One day last year, when “Yanky” was in the fifth grade, he came off the school bus in tears.
“What happened?” his father, “Eli,” gasped, with a note of urgency in his voice.
“I hit a boy in my class,” Yanky wailed. “And that means that now I’m a rasha.”
“Hold on a minute, here,” Eli said, trying to soothe his distressed son and unpack the day’s events at the same time. “Why did you hit someone in the first place? And why does that mean you’re a rasha?”
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