Questions tagged [sanhedrin]
Actions and internal workings of the high religious court during Temple, Mishnaic, and Talmudic times.
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Does the Sanhedrin of 23 have any involvement whatsoever in judging damages? (financial disputes)
It seemed from reading Mishnayot Sanhedrin that the court of 3 was in charge of damages. They said 71 was for declaring war. 23 seemed to judge cases of non-financial disputes (death penalty if I ...
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Is a court of 3 that has complete authority to judge damages called by the name a "Sanhedrin"?
The Mishna in Sanhedrin disscuses a court of three being sufficient to judge damages. However it does not say the name of this court. Is this court named a בית דין or is this court named a סנהדרין.
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What tribe is Avner from?
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From what tribe was Avner, he was not fond of tribe of Yehuda. In book Shmuel, Avner said to Ish boshet, am leader to yehuda dogs.
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Talmud Yerushalmi vs Bavli
We all know that only a Sanhedrin can vote conclusively on a halakha for the entire nation. Since the Sanhedrin was dismantled, the next best option was to listening to the hachamim of your locale. ...
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An ancient text arguing that an assembly with no opposition should be dissolved
In Benjamin Aryeh Hakohen Weiss's "Even Yekarah” (Choshen Mishpat, sec. 20) it refers to an ancient gentile text which specifies that when the state government has no minority/opposition members, ...
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Did the Battle of Gog Umagog happen already?
I’ve been reading a lot of Ezekiel Chapter 38 and on with Talmud Sanhedrin 97a and on and it seems from there that the order of events before the coming of mashiach need to happen in order for ...
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What is "the Halachic State"?
There is a term called מְדִינַת הֲלָכָה - Halachic State. On Wikipedia (not a reliable source, but could not find anything else), it says:
A Halachic State is a Jewish state that endorses Judaism in ...
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Will the Moshiach's Beit Din be "greater" than previous Batei Din? [duplicate]
The Gemara (Avodah Zarah 36a) says that a Beis Din does not have the power to overrule a Takkanah of a previous Beit Din. It is generally understood that earlier Batei Din are superior to later ones (...
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Why in a capital case of murder in beis din if all judges find the defendant guilty, is the defendent set free? [duplicate]
Why in a capital case of murder if all the judges find the defendent guilty , he is set free?
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Did Sanhedrin use Oral law along with Written Law
Did Sanhedrin use Oral law along with Written Law in their decisions?
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What's the source for unanimous decision of the Sanhedrin?
I often hear that if the Sanhedrin were to vote unanimously to condemn an accused then the verdict is that he goes free. What is the original source for this?
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Which Scripture is being talked about in: He who destroys one soul of a human being, the Scripture considers him as if he should destroy a whole world
I have read in Tractate Sanhedrin: Chapter 4:
Therefore the man was created singly, to teach that he who destroys
one soul of a human being, the Scripture considers him as if he should
destroy a ...
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Based on Sanhedrin 39a:13 & Rashi commentary on Ezekiel 4:4, how does immobility (motionlessness) atone/cleanse national sins?
Was Yechezkel 4:4 method of Israel's atonement simply : immobility?
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The Holy One, Blessed be He, afflicts Ezekiel in order to cleanse the sins of the Jewish people. God instructed ...
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Did Hillel get rid of the year of Jubilee?
I came across this post on 4chan:
I do not ordinarily put much stock into what Christians assert about the pharisaic order of the time, given that "Pharisee" is usually just a contextless ...
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Warning/hasrah nowadays
If 2 witnesses give a warning to someone not to transgress an aveira, I.e. “don’t eat that dead animal or you will get lashes,” and the man eats it anyway. If the Bais Hamikdash and Sanhedrin are ...
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