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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
60 - BLASPHEMING THE GREAT NAME
Maimonides says in the “Mishneh Torah”: “He who asserts that idolatry is true, even if he does not worship an idol, reviles and blasphemes the Honored and Revered Name of the Lord. The worshipper of idols and the blasphemer are thus in the same class… Hence, the worshipper of idols is hanged, just as the blasphemer is hanged, in each case after being first stoned… Both the blasphemer and the worshipper of idols deny the fundamental principles of our religion.”*
“Of all those who are condemned to death by a court of law, the blasphemer is the only one in whose case all the witnesses and judges are required to place their hands, one after another, upon the head of the culprit and say to him, ‘Thy blood be upon thy head, for thou hast brought it on thyself.’”*