Rabbi Richard A. Block
Notes Time 149, 24(June 19, 1997): 34-35. CCAR Yearbook 89: 105. M.Mak. 1:10. Julius Kravetz,“Some Cautionary Remarks,” CCAR Journal 15, 1(January, 1968): 75; see Passamanek, supra, p. 16. Ibid. See, e.g., San. 49b, et seq. M. San. 7:1. J. David Bleich, Contemporary Halachic Problems II, p. 350. M.San. 7:3. M.San. 8:5: San. 46a: Yeb. 90b. San. 46a; Yeb. 90b. See, e.g., M.Sota 1:7 and M.San. 4:5. As in the instance of the defiant and rebellious son, M.San. 8:5; San. 72a; Sifre Deut. xxi, 18-21. This example is to be regarded as theoretical, since the rabbis also insisted that there never was nor would there ever be a son who warranted this punishment. Nonetheless, if one speaks of the rabbis’ conceptual understanding of capital punishment, the text has direct bearing. M.San. 9:5 and Tos.San. 9:5. The latter recounts a case of a person taken out for stoning for an unspecified offense and indicates that“those executed by: a bet din have a share of the world to come because they are confessed of all their sins.” M.San. 4:5, quoting Prov. 11:10. D. De Sola Pool, Capital Punishment Among the Jews(New York, 1916), p. 20. San. 8b, 9b, inter alia.: San. 40b. 3 San 8b,Mak.16a.: San. 32b.; San. 29a. c San. 40b. San. 8b. Bleich, p. 353, note 12; Rambam, Hilkhot Rotzeah 2:4, Hilkhot Mamrim 2:4.
San. 37b; Sota 8b; Ket. 30a. See also, NT, John 18:31. Josephus, The Jewish Wars 6, ii, 4 and Bleich, p. 343.
Rambam, Hilkhot Rotzeah 2:4 and Hilkhot Sanhedrin 8:6. See also, Bleich, pp 350-56.
Bleich, p. 351. notes 10 and 11.
Rambam, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 18:6.
Bleich, p. 355. and note 16.
Rambam, Hilkhot Melakhim 3:10, Hilkhot Rotzeah 2:4.
Bleich, p. 350. In effect, the Jewish sovereign may be said to enforce the Noahide code against his or her subjects when the restrictions of the Sinaitic code are too stringent. See the discussion of the Noahide code at p.7, infra. San. 9:5 and rabbinic commentaries, including Rashi and Bertinoro. See also Kravetz, note 3, page 81.