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Home -- Content: Series 7 (Laws) -- Translation: English -- Book: 1 (Tora) -- Part: 1 (Positive) -- Command: 227 -- Text The Sharia of Moses in the TORA 227 - TRANSGRESSORS OF CERTAIN COMMANDMENTS TO BE STRANGLEDLeviticus 20:10 -- “The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.”
A complete list of the commandments for which strangling is the penalty is to be found in “Mishneh Torah”.* * Mishneh Torah, Shoftim, Hilchoth Sanhedrin XV, 13
All members of a court, which pronounced a capital sentence, were under obligation to abstain from all food on the day of execution.* The sages further interpreted the commandment, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18) as ordaining that a humane mode of execution be applied wherever possible.** * Sanh. 63a
** Pes. 75a |