Commentary for Sanhedrin 100:1

הוי אומר כח המדיח וקל וחומר ומה חנק שחמור מסייף שריפה חמורה ממנו סייף הקל לא כ"ש

Stoning is severer than strangulation, being the penalty of a blasphemerand idol worshipper, the extreme gravity of whose offence has already beenstated. On the contrary, is not strangulation severer, since it is the penaltyof one who smites his father or mother, the gravity of whose offence liesin the fact that their honour is likened etc.? — Since the Divine Law excludedan arusah, the daughter of an Israelite, from the penalty of a nesu'ah, thedaughter of an Israelite, changing it from strangling tostoning,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The offence of an arusah being greater, v. p. 335. n. 1. ');">³</span>

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