Musar for Sanhedrin 162:1
אמר ליה אדא ברי בתרי קטלי קטלת ליה:
— He replied: 'Adda, my son, will you execute him twice!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Obviously not! Therefore under no circumstances can one prohibition take legal hold where another exists, if death is the penalty. R. Jose's admission refers only to unwitting transgression, and is in connection with sacrifices. ');"><sup>1</sup></span>
Orchot Tzadikim
One ought to be zealous against sinners and the wicked, to strive with them and to rebuke them. As our Sages said : "A man who cohabitates with a heathen woman, the zealous ones should smite him" (Sanhedrin 81b).
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