Halakhah for Sanhedrin 3:3
וחכמים אומרים מוציא שם רע בעשרים ושלשה מפני שיש בו דיני נפשות
BY THREE, AS MUST CASES OF RAPE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXII, 28-29. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> SEDUCTION<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXII, 15-16. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
This commandment is practiced at the time of the [Temple] when Israel are in their inhabitation; since [only] then is it in our hand to judge capital cases. And they, may their memory be blessed, said (Sanhedrin 2a) that we only judge a false prophet with a court of seventy-one [judges].
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