Musar for Yevamot 12:12
מאי לאו רבי נתן היא דאמר לחלק יצתה וטעמא דכתב רחמנא לא תבערו הא לאו הכי דחי
one <font>might infer [that the death penalty may be executed] both on week-days and on the Sabbath</font> and, as regards the application of the text, <i>Everyone that profaneth it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Sabbath. ');"><sup>22</sup></span></i> shall surely be put to death,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXXI, 14 which prohibits all kinds of labour on the Sabbath. ');"><sup>23</sup></span>
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
Commandment 115 prohibits the kindling of fire on the Sabbath, based on לא תבערו אש בכל מושבותיכם ביום השבת, which our sages (Yevamot 6) understand to mean that the penalty of death by burning must not be carried out on the Sabbath. The same ruling applies to all other kinds of death penalties. The מכילתא justifies the derivation of this ruling from our verse in the following words: "Making a fire on the Sabbath was included in the general prohibiton of work on the Sabbath and was singled out to teach that just as burning is one of the categories of death penalties which the Torah has legislated but which does not override the Sabbath, so also the other types of death penalties do not override the Sabbath."
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