תלמוד על סנהדרין 8:1
Jerusalem Talmud Sotah
Who is a foolish pious man? He saw a baby struggling in a river130Really, “making bubbles”, because it is drowning. In the Babli, 21b, it is a woman drowning whom he cannot save because it would hurt his salvation if he looked at a woman.. He said, after I take off my phylacteries131Since the phylacteries contain biblical verses, they are holy. He is too ignorant to realize that the commandment to save a life overrides all other commandments except those involving murder, incest and adultery, and idolatry., I shall save him. By the time he takes off his phylacteries, that one is dead. He saw a prime fig and said, I shall give it to the first person I shall meet. He saw a preliminarily married girl and ran after her132Since it is a commandment to keep one’s word, he brings himself into a situation in which he can be killed. The Mishnah quoted states that if one observes a person bent on committing a murder, a homosexual rape, or the rape of a preliminarily married girl (Deut. 22:23–24), one may kill the attempting murderer or rapist with impunity. If the girl is afraid of him when he presents the fig and runs away, religious law would force him not to run after the girl.. That is what we have stated133Mishnah Sanhedrin 8:7: These are the people one may save [from sinning] by killing them: “If somebody pursues another to kill him, or after a male (for homosexual rape), or after a preliminarily married girl [one may kill the perpetrator]; but one who pursues an animal (for sodomy), desecrates the Sabbath, or commits idolatry one may not save by killing him.” A bystander can kill a person bent on committing a capital crime only if thereby he saves another human being.: “If somebody pursues another to kill him, after a male, or after a preliminarily married girl.”
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Jerusalem Talmud Ketubot
Rebbi Ze‘ira, Rav Hamnuna in the name of Rav Ada bar Aḥawa: She cannot be executed unless she is an adolescent at the time of the execution. What is the reason? “They shall execute the adolescent at her father’s door128Deut. 22:18–21..” But did not Rebbi Ḥiyya state128aCf. Notes 46–49.: If she whored in her father’s house and [the husband] calumniated her after she became an adult, he is not flogged nor does he pay 100 tetradrachmas but either she or the witnesses are executed by stoning. A Mishnah disagrees with Rav Ada bar Aḥawa: “If he escaped after being sentenced and then his pubic hair grew fully.129Mishnah Sanhedrin 8:6, speaking of the unruly son, Deut. 21:18–21, who can be judged only if he is an adolescent, in the 6 months after he grew two pubic hairs before the pubic hair is fully grown. If he was sentenced as an adolescent, he can be executed as an adult.” There, you can say “they shall execute the adolescent” who whored; can you say here “they shall execute him”, the son130Deut. 22:21 says only “they shall stone him”, without indicating age.?
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