Subj : Re: Extent of the Torah
To   : JOSHUA LEE
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Wed Oct 25 2000 08:05 pm

>  FM> movies based on those stories.  The dialogue took certain words and
>  FM> analyzed them ad infinitum.  One of these words was "veer."  It was
>  FM> sort of like reading _Mad_ Magazine long before it was in existence.
> 
> Mad actually has been around a pretty long time; yer dating yourself!
> Actually, I think Mad has been around before I was.


Ah, Mad. I have many a fond memory...


>  FM> I got stuck on the idenity
>  FM> of the "for 'all men.' "  Refresh my memory. What IS it that is
>  FM> banned for "all men."  If you tell me it is bagels, cream cheese and
>  FM> jelly I'll shoot MYSELF!!!
> 
> It is seriously not for all people. In fact, there's even a statement
> in the Talmud that a non-Jew who observes the Sabbath in full is
> chayiv misa. (*Liable* for the death penalty; keeping in mind of
> course, that Jewish courts have such strict rules for the death
> penalties that it is effectively impossible to carry out according
> to the laws concerning it, a court that executes one person in 70
> years is "a bloody court"; and that Jewish courts never adjure
> non-Jewish cases. A Jew, who *breaks* the Sabbath, for example,
> is also chayiv misa; but that penalty has not been carried out
> for millenia.)


It couldn't be carried out until a new Sanhedrin is formed, right? Which
IIRC requires a temple?

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