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pronounce the ineffable name of God with all of its letters, i.e., as it is spelled. The Talmud asks: And how could he do that? But didn’t we learn in the Mishnah (Sanhedrin 90a): These are the people who have no share in the World-to-Come: One who says that the Torah is not from Heaven or that the
The Talmud answers: R' Ḥanina ben Teradyon did it to teach himself, as it is taught in a baraita with regard to the prohibition against sorcery: “You shall not learn to do” (Deuteronomy 18:9); this indicates: But you may learn to understand and to teach. In other words, certain prohibitions do not
The Talmud asks: Rather, what is the reason that he was punished? The Talmud answers: He was punished because he would pronounce the ineffable name of God in public, instead of privately. And his wife was condemned to execution by decapitation because she did not protest his doing so. From here th
The Talmud asks: And why was his daughter condemned to sit in a brothel? As R' Yoḥanan says: Once, the daughter of R' Ḥanina ben Teradyon was walking before the nobles of Rome, and they said to each other: How pleasant are the steps of this young woman. Upon hearing this, she immediately took care
The Talmud relates: When the 3 of them went out after being sentenced, they accepted the justice of God’s judgment. R' Ḥanina ben Teradyon said: “The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice” (Deuteronomy 32:4). And his wife said the continuation of the verse: “A God of faithfulness