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Sanhedrin 85: The Prohibition against Hitting One's Parents: Extra Ramifications
Season 24 Episode 85
Since a son cannot hit his parents, can that son sit on a court that would decide the case of his father being subject to lashes, for example? Rav Sh…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 84: Sentenced to Strangulation
Season 24 Episode 84
First, finishing chapter 9: If a non-kohen served in the Temple, that would be punishable by death "in the hands of heaven." But that opinion seems t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 83: The Amora Who Was Like a Tanna
Season 24 Episode 83
In the context of death that is meted out in the hands of heaven, the Gemara presents a list of those in this category - specifically, pertaining to …
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 82: Zealotry
Season 24 Episode 82
Rav Dimi traveled from the land of Israel to Babylonia: The Hasmonean court isn't decrees against a man sleeping with a non-Jewish woman that puts hi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 81: When the Court Can't Execute Those Who Deserve It
Season 24 Episode 81
Mishnayot! 1 - Someone who has incurred two different kinds of death penalties (but can only be killed once) - he is killed with the worse of them. S…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 80: Talmudic Forensics (and Word Problems)
Season 24 Episode 80
Ongoing discussion of a guilty party intermingled with innocent people (for example). Beginning with a case of two people standing together - and an …
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 79: Force, Intent, and What It Takes to Convict
Season 24 Episode 79
Two new mishnayot! First, one with the case of one who intends to kill an animal, but kills a person, or a non-Jew and then Jew, etc. Disturbing case…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 78: Killing a Dead Man
Season 24 Episode 78
With partial or shared causation, who is culpable? Which leads to a discussion of someone who is already mortally wounded or ill or injured, and then…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 77: Indirect Ways of Killing - a Manual
Season 24 Episode 77
When one person ties up another, and the tied-up person died of starvation, or of the elements (on delay), then the person who tied him up is exempt …
1 year, 6 months ago
Sanhedrin 76: Examples of Extreme Death Sentencing
Season 24 Episode 76
Complicated incestuous relationship - such as a man with a woman he raped and the daughter of that rape (don't we know that that's an unacceptable!?!…
1 year, 6 months ago