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Sanhedrin 55: The Role of Shame
Season 24 Episode 55
A challenging daf, with the breakdown of details of activity or homosexual acts, for bestial acts, and so on. The sages tackle the topics with seemin…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 54: 'In the Way One Lies with a Woman'
Season 24 Episode 54
NOTE: A difficult daf for modern sensibilities, specifically with regard to (male) homosexual practice. The sages deliberate how to understand and ap…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 53: Stoning or Sin-Offerings
Season 24 Episode 53
How are other crimes determined to be subject ot the death sentence of stoning? That is, as derived from the necromancer and the sorcerer, depending …
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 52: Dignity Even in Being Put to Death
Season 24 Episode 52
3 mishnayot! On the details of the process of the executions: burning, stoning, strangulation, respectively. Along with several rabbinic disputes alo…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 51: The Bad End of the Kohen's Daughter
Season 24 Episode 51
The death sentence for one who desecrates Shabbat (intentionally, with witnesses and warning) - stoning or burning? (the conclusion is stoning, but t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 50: Why Ranking the Severity of the 4 Executions Matters
Season 24 Episode 50
Coming back to the order of the death sentences of the court - descending order of severity: stoning, burning, beheading, and strangulation, plus the…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 49: A Hierarchy of Deaths
Season 24 Episode 49
Finishing chapter 6: King David's minister of defense, Yoav, who did not rebel against the king (in contrast to the other discussions of those who di…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 48: Kingly vs. Courtly Executions
Season 24 Episode 48
A dispute between Abaye and Rava whether designating an item - in this case, a shroud - is sufficient to prohibit it from common use, or whether that…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 47: The Curative Graves of the Sages
Season 24 Episode 47
If a person ate of the forbidden fats, he needs to bring a sin-offering to atone for it. But if he decides to stop observing the mitzvot between the …
1 year, 7 months ago
Sanhedrin 46: From the Executed to the Mourners
Season 24 Episode 46
More on the issue of putting only one condemned person to death on one day, with discussion over whether the same violation and the same kind of exec…
1 year, 7 months ago