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Granted, according to R' Yonatan it is clear the punishment for adultery is strangulation, in the manner that R' Yehuda HaNasi explains the reason for his opinion. But according to R' Yoshiya, from where is it derived that there is a punishment of execution by strangulation in the world, i.e., in h
Rava said: The 4 types of the death penalty are learned as a tradition. There is no question as to the types of capital punishment that exist in halakha. Rather, the question is which type of execution is meted out as punishment for which sins.
The Talmud asks: What is meant by R' Yonatan’s statement: It is not because strangulation is the most lenient type of capital punishment? The Talmud answers: At the root of the matter, R' Yonatan and R' Yoshiya disagree with regard to the issue that is the subject of the dispute between R' Shimon an
§ R' Zeira said to Abaye: With regard to the rest of those transgressors, other than necromancers and sorcerers, who are stoned to death, with regard to whom stoning is not explicitly written in the Torah because their punishment is derived via a verbal analogy from that of a necromancer and a sorc
Abaye said to him: It is derived from a verbal analogy between “their blood” and “their blood shall be upon them.” As, if it is derived from “they shall be put to death,” why do I need the verbal analogy between “their blood” and “their blood”? Why does this term need to be written with regard to t