Study Makkot folio 13B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
are included in the category of those liable to receive 40 lashes for violating a Torah prohibition. This is the statement of R' Yishmael.
R' Akiva says: Those liable to receive karet are included in the category of those liable to receive 40 lashes, because if they repented, the heavenly court absolves them of the punishment of karet. Therefore, karet does not absolve them of the punishment of lashes. Those liable to be executed with
R' Yitzḥak says that like those liable to be executed, those liable to receive karet are not flogged. Those liable to receive karet for incest were included in the generalization: “For anyone who performs any of these abominations, the souls who do so shall be excised [venikhretu] from among their
The Talmud elaborates: What is the reason for the opinion of R' Yishmael, who holds that even those liable to be executed are liable to receive lashes? It is as it is written: “If you will not observe to perform all the matters of this Torah” (Deuteronomy 28:58), and it is written immediately there
The Talmud objects: If so, and R' Yishmael interprets the verses in that manner, those liable for failing to perform positive mitzvot should also be flogged, as those mitzvot too are included in “all the matters of this Torah.” The Talmud answers: Positive mitzvot are not included in this phrase, b