Subj : Re: Extent of the Torah
To   : JOSHUA LEE
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Thu Oct 26 2000 08:02 pm

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> -=> TODD HENSON wrote to JOSHUA LEE <=-
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>  >  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.
> 
>  TH> Ah, Mad. I have many a fond memory...
> 
> I wonder if Alferd E. Neuman is running for President this year...


With Sylvester P Smythe as his running mate? I'd vote for him. :-)


>  > 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
> 
>  TH> It couldn't be carried out until a new Sanhedrin is formed, right?
>  TH> Which IIRC requires a temple?
> 
> Yes. Though even with a Sanhedrin, it is nearly impossible to carry
> out. A Sanhedrin that executes once in 7, another opinion; once in
> 70 years, is called a "bloody court" in the Talmud.


Which basically makes the death penalty non-existent. But, why even HAVE it
on the books in 
the first place (back during the time when it was in effect), if it's never
really to be carried out?
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