Babylonian Talmud

Rodkinson 1918 — source 16, scan section 2

TO the Intercalation of a Year and of Months ; to Appraise Consecrated Real Estate as well as Movable Properties; and if Among the Appraisers Must be Priests, AND IF so How Many. The Number of Persons Needed to Add to the City from the Suburbs of Jerusalem. What Majority is Needed to Accuse and what to Acquit. How Many People Must be in a City that a Court of Twenty-three Judges Should be Established . . i CHAPTER II. Rules and Regulations concerning the High-Priest: If he may Judge and be Judged, be a Witness and be Witnessed Against ; the Laws Regarding a Death Occurring in his Family and the Custom of the Condolence. The Same Rules concerning a King. Regulations as to what a King May and May not Allow himself : how many Wives and how many Stables for Horses he may have ; how he Must be Respected and Feared by his People, etc. . 43 CHAPTER III. Rules and Regulations concerning the Qualification or Dis- qualification OF Judges and Witnesses who may Decide UPON Strict Law and who in Arbitration. When a Rejec- tion against Judges and Witnesses may or may not take PLACE. Of Relatives that are Disqualified and those that are not. How THE WITNESSES SHOULD BE EXAMINED IN Civil Cases. Until what Time New Evidence may or may NOT Affect a Decision Rendered .... 64 vii vin CONTENTS. CHAPTER IV. Rules and Regulations concerning Examinations and Cross- Exam i nations OF Witnesses in Civil and Criminal Cases. The Difference in Judging and in Discussions between Civil and Criminal Cases. How the Members of the Sanhedrin were Seated. How many Recording Scribes were Needed. How Judges were Added if Needed, and from what People. How Witnesses should be Frightened IN Criminal Cases. The Reason why Adam the First was Created Singly 97 CHAPTER V. Rules and Regulations concerning Preliminary Queries, Ex- amination, AND CrOSS-ExAMINATION IN CRIMINAL CaSES. What may or may not be Considered a Contradiction OF Witnesses. How is it if a Disciple not Belonging to THE Judges Says: "I have Something to Say to his Advantage or Disadvantage"? By what Majority One MAY be Acquitted and by What Accused; and to what Number Judges may be Added, if they cannot Come to any Conclusion 115 CHAPTER VI. Rules and Regulations concerning the Execution by Ston- ing and the Manner of Heralding. How the Criminal was Urged to Confess Before Death. The Stripping Off Before Death of the Dress of a Male and of a Female. The Hanging After Stoning, and how it was Per- formed 126 CHAPTER VII. Rules and Regulations concerning the Four Kinds of Death Pkkscriukd in the Scripture, and how they Ought to be Executed. The Enumeration of Those who Come Under the Category of Stoning. How the Examination Con- cerning Blasphemy Should be Conducted. Concerning tho.se who Transfer their Children to Molech ; Familiar Spirits, etc. Concerning Cursing Father and Mother, Seducers and Misleaders, etc 149 CONTENTS. ix CHAPTER VIII. Rules and Regulations concerning a Stubborn and Rebel- lious Son. At What Age and What Has He To Do to BE Charged as Such ? How is it if^ e.g., his Father Con- demns HIM, BUT NOT HIS MoTHER, OR vtce versa. If One of HIS Parents were Lame or Blind, etc. If he Runs Away before the Decision was Rendered. Concerning Burglary and if a Burglar Deserves Capital Punish- ment, MUST Pay the Damage Caused by Breaking In 201 CHAPTER IX. Rules and Regulations concerning Those to Whom Burning and Those to Whom Slaying Applies. Who is Considered a Murderer Deserving Capital Punishment and Who is to be Exiled. Those who Recovered after they were Diagnosed to Die; Killing Some Other One instead of Those Whom He had Intended 222 CHAPTER X. Rules and Regulations concerning those to Whom Choking Applies. Concerning a Rebelling Judge; what shall be His Crime for which He is to be Executed; at which Place and with which Kind of Death. And concerning A False Prophet 245 CHAPTER XI. The Haggadic Part about Resurrection; Shares in the World to Come ; and about the Messiah, etc. . . 265 VOLUME VIII. fXVl.)— TRACT SANHEDRIN, PART 11— (HAGGADA.) CHAPTER XI. THE HAGGADIC PART ABOUT RESURRECTION ; SHARES IN THE WORLD TO COME ; AND ABOUT THE MESSIAH, ETC. MISHNA /. : All Israel has a share in the world to come. As it reads [Is. Ix. 21] : " And thy people — they will all be right- eous, for ever shall they possess the land, the sprout of my plant- ing, the work of my hands, that I may glorify myself," The fol- lowing have no share in the world to come : He who says that there is no allusion in the Torah concerning resurrection, and he who says that the Torah was not given by Heaven, and a follower of Epicurus R. Aqiba added, him who reads books of the Hiz- unim and him who mumbles over a wound, reciting the verse [Ex. XV. 26] : " I will put none of those diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians ; for I the Lord am thy phy- sician." Abba Shaul said : Also he who speaks out the Holy Name with its vocals.* Three kings and four commoners have no share in the world to come. The three kings are Jeroboam, Achab, and Menasseh. R. Jehudah, however, said : Menasseh has a share in the world to come. As it reads [II. Chron. xxxiii. 13] : " And he prayed unto him and he permitted himself to be entreated by him, and heard his supplication and brought him back to Jerusalem unto his kingdom." And he was answered : He was returned to his kingdom, but not to the world to come. The four commoners are Bileam, Doeg, Achitopel, and Gechazi. GEMARA : Is he who does not believe that the resurrection is hinted at in the Torah such a criminal that he loses his share in the world to come? It was taught : He denies resurrection, therefore he will not have a share in it, as punishment corre- sponds to the deed ; for all retributions of the Holy One, blessed * The explanation of this term, with a difference, is found in the Gemara farther on. It is prohibited to mention the name of Jehovah as it is written, and we read it with the expression " Adonay." See a footnote in Chapter VII. We have to add thereto, that none of the Jews — not even the reformers of that time — dared to mention this Holy Name as it is written, and wherever it was mentioned they read it " Adonay." 26s 266 THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD. be He, are in correspondence with man's doing. And R. Samuel b. Na'hmani in the name of R. Jonathan said : Whence do we know that so it is? From [H. Kings, vii. i, 2]: "Then said Elisha, Hear ye the word of the Lord : Thus hath said the Lord, About this time to-morrow a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. Then answered the lord of the king, on whose hand he used to lean,