Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Sanhedrin 91:10

או בבת כהן וזוממי זוממיה

or to the daughter ofa priest and the refuters of the refutingwitnesses.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., if A and B, who gave evidence against the daughter of a priest, were refuted by C and D, and the latter were afterwards themselves refuted by E and F, the woman undergoes her due death penalty — burning — since her refuting witnesses C and D were proved to be collusive, and the false witnesses are punished by the same penalty as the male adulterer (strangulation or burning, according to the status of the woman). V. infra 90a. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> It has been taught: R. Eliezer b. Jacob said: I haveheard<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From my teachers. ');"><sup>20</sup></span>

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

Prior to the appointment of the first king, the Sanhedrin performed both functions, i.e. משפט התורה as well as הוראת שעה. This is one of the reasons Moses is referred to in our traditonal sources as מלך, king. This is also why, after the destruction of the Temple when Israel no longer had a king, Rabbi Eliezer is on record as saying: "I have heard that (nowadays) a Jewish Court of Law may administer corporal punishment even when Torah law does not call for this."
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