Capital Punishment in Jewish Law
January 28, 2022
In the pre-modern era, Jewish tradition had to handle criminal law for our community - both adjudicating law and issuing punishment. Some violations of law even carried the death penalty. Jewish legal tradition and Jewish courts throughout the ages took a wide range of approaches to the application of capital punishment. In this three part […]
Please Give Us More About Soferut. Originally Published January 28-29, 2022.
January 28, 2022
Along the way to answering the question a couple weeks ago about whether a sofer must also be a rabbi, we did learn a few miscellaneous interesting facts about the soferut business. For one thing, as anyone who just looks at a Torah scroll - during an aliyah, for instance - can see, there are […]