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  2. Capital punishment in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The institution of capital punishment in Jewish law is defined in the Law of Moses (Torah) in multiple places. The Mosaic Law provides for the death penalty to be inflicted upon those persons convicted of the following offenses:

  3. Punishments in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    A Knas (Hebrew: קנס) is a monetary penalty that an individual is required to pay, not as direct compensation for damages but rather as a form of punishment or deterrence, similar to a modern-day fine. in the Jewish law however, there were different types of Knas for different types of punishments.

  4. Crime and punishment in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible is considered a holy text in most Abrahamic religions. It records a large number of events and laws that are endorsed or proscribed by the God of Israel. Judaism teaches that the Torah contains 613 commandments, many of which deal with crime and punishment, but only the Noahide Laws apply to humanity in general

  5. List of capital crimes in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    Certain forms of incest, namely if it involves the father's wife or a daughter-in-law. [21] Other forms of incest receive lesser punishment; sexual activity with a sister/stepsister is given excommunication for a punishment; [ 22 ] if it involves a brother's wife or an uncle's wife it is just cursed [ 23 ] and sexual activity with an aunt that ...

  6. Judaism and violence - Wikipedia

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    According to Talmudic law, the competence to apply capital punishment ceased with the destruction of the Second Temple. [43] In practice, where medieval Jewish courts had the power to pass and execute death sentences, they continued to do so for particularly grave offenses, although not necessarily the ones defined by the law. [43]

  7. Sanhedrin (tractate) - Wikipedia

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    The 4 types of capital punishments, details of crimes which merit stoning (in fact stoning was only actually done if the convict survived being dropped off a 5-meter cliff first) The rebellious son, and other crimes for which the offender is killed before committing the actual prohibition, and the commandments which Jews are to die before ...

  8. List of Talmudic principles - Wikipedia

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    A law is de'oraita (Aramaic: דאורייתא, "of the Torah," i.e. scriptural) if it was given with the written Torah. A law is derabbanan (Aramaic: דרבנן, "of our rabbis," Rabbinic) if it is ordained by the rabbinical sages. [1] The concepts of de'oraita and derabbanan are used extensively in Jewish law.

  9. Religion and capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Reform Judaism has formally opposed the death penalty since 1959, when the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now the Union for Reform Judaism) resolved “that in the light of modern scientific knowledge and concepts of humanity, the resort to or continuation of capital punishment either by a state or by the national government is no ...