Questions tagged [malchut-royalty]
Questions about kings and monarchy in Judaism.
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Did the Kings of Simien ever try to reach out to the Sanhedrin once it was finally formed?
Is there any record of contact between the Sanhedrin and the Kings of Simien?
If not how did the Kingdom of Simien function without contact?
Did they continue to mashacht kings without contact?
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May the King execute by a method other than decapitation today?
Rambam says in Melakim uMilkhamot:
וְאֵין לַמֶּלֶךְ רְשׁוּת לַהֲרֹג אֶלָּא בְּסַיִף בִּלְבַד
The King may only execute by sword
What's the source for Rambam's codification? Does this hold today?
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Was it a problem that "every man did what was right in his own eyes" before there was a King?
Was it a deemed a problem that "every man did what was right in his own eyes" before there was a King? By the people or by G!d? Or was this seen as aproblematic or even workable and gainful ...
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Do me'ah rabbonim become a King? [closed]
I have read that me'ah(100) rabbonim together have special capacities than otherwise. Do me'ah rabbonim become a King or are they still not a king.
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Did the ancient Israelite Kings appoint royal justices?
Did the ancient Israelite Kings appoint royal justices? If so, how is this distinct from the medieval practice of appointing beurim in certain medieval Jewish communities? And what powers were these ...
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What would happen if the king was incapacitated?
If a Jewish king became incapacitated, for instance if he was in a coma, what would happen? Would a new king be appointed? Would nothing happen and the people would simply wait? Would the queen, or ...
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Was Yehonatan a mored b'malchut?
In Shmuel 19:1 Shaul, the king, clearly gives instructions to kill David, which he reinforces even after swearing not to kill David (v.6) by sending soldiers to kill David and even going himself to do ...
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Can/should anyone kill a mored b'malchut?
If someone is found to have rebelled against the king (mored b'malchut), by say directly disobeying a king's order, does the rebel need to have the crime adjudicated in court or can (should?) anyone ...
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Why compare a groom to a king?
According to Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer (Ch. 16), a groom is similar to a king (Chosson domeh lmelech).
The Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer lists a few points where we see similarities:
We praise a groom during ...
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Can a Jewish king abdicate?
When a person is crowned as king either via anointing by an established prophet of God or by being the son of a previous king from the line of David (assuming no other siblings make a claim); can that ...
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Golden tefillin for kings?
I heard in a shiur that Achav, as much as a רשע he was during his reign, actually was a very big תלמיד חכם in Torah knowledge and even wore golden tefilin all day long. Apparently all מלכי ישראל were ...
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Is it permissible to have multiple kings at the same time
According to Halacha, is it permissible to have multiple kings govern over Israel at the same time? Like could you have different kings each governing but all accountable to say a greater king or ...
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When did the Jews cry out about their king in fulfillment of Shmuel's prophecy?
In 1 Shmuel 8 Shmuel the Navi explains the laws of the king to the Jewish people and concludes with an apparent prophecy in pasuk 18:
וּזְעַקְתֶּם֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא מִלִּפְנֵ֣י מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר ...
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Is a Jewish Queen allowable?
The Torah gives us halachos of a king, but I'm curious whether anyone discusses whether it is halachically acceptable to have a female reigning monarch - a queen, and if there was one, whether she ...
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Democratically elected leader vs King
I've heard that a number of different opinions suggest that a king is not the ideal situation, but that the Torah gives us halachos of monarchy because that's what people often want. At the time that ...
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