Volume 15 Tract Sanhedrin Part I - Jurisprudence (Damages)
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Title Page |
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Explanatory Remarks |
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A Word to the Reader |
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Synopsis of Subjects |
Chapter 1 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning the Appointment of Judges
in Civil and Criminal Cases. Which Are Considered Civil and
Which Criminal. How Many Are Needed to the intercalation of A
Year and of Months; to Appraise Consecrated Real Estate As Well
As Movable Properties; and If Among the Appraisers Must Be
Priests, and If So How Many. the Number of Persons Needed to Add
to the City From the Suburbs of Jerusalem. What Majority Is
Needed to Accuse and What to Acquit. How Many People Must Be in
a City That a Court of Twenty-Three Judges Should Be Established |
Chapter 2 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning the High-Priest: If He May
Judge and Be Judged, Be A Witness and Be Witnessed Against; the Laws Regarding A
Death Occurring in His Family and the Custom of the Condolence. The Same Rules
Concerning a King. Regulations As to What A King May and May Not Allow Himself:
How Many Wives and How Many Stables For Horses He May Have; How He Must Be
Respected and Feared By His People, Etc. |
Chapter 3 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning the Qualification or
Disqualification of Judges and Witnesses Who May Decide Upon Strict Law and Who
in Arbitration. When A Rejection Against Judges and Witnesses May or May Not
Take Place. Of Relatives That Are Disqualified and Those That Are Not. How the
Witnesses Should Be Examined in Civil Cases. Until What Time New Evidence May or
May Not Affect A Decision Rendered |
Chapter 4 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning Examinations and
Cross-Examinations of Witnesses in Civil and Criminal Cases. The Difference in
Judging and in Discussions between Civil and Criminal Cases. How the Members of
the Sanhedrin Were Seated. How Many Recording Scribes Were Needed? How Judges
Were Added If Needed, and From What People. How Witnesses Should Be Frightened
in Criminal Cases. The Reason Why Adam the First Was Created Singly. |
Chapter 5 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning Preliminary Queries,
Examination, and Cross-Examination in Criminal Cases. What May or May Not Be
Considered A Contradiction of Witnesses. How Is It If A Disciple Not Belonging
to the Judges Says: "I Have Something to Say to His Advantage or Disadvantage"?
By What Majority One May Be Acquitted and By What Accused; and to What Number
Judges May Be Added, if they cannot come to any Conclusion |
Chapter 6 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning the Execution by Stoning
and the Manner of Heralding. How the Criminal Was Urged to Confess Before Death.
The Stripping off Before Death of the Dress of a Male and of a Female. The
Hanging after Stoning, and How It Was Performed |
Chapter 7 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning the Four Kinds of Death
Prescribed in the Scripture, and how they ought to Be Executed. The Enumeration
of Those Who Come Under the Category of Stoning. How the Examination Concerning
Blasphemy Should Be Conducted. Concerning Those Who Transfer their Children to
Molech; Familiar Spirits, Etc. Concerning Cursing Father and Mother, Seducers
and Misleaders, Etc. |
Chapter 8 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning a Stubborn and Rebellious
Son. At What Age and What Has He to Do to Be Charged As Such?
How Is It If, E.G., His Father Condemns Him, But Not His Mother,
or Vice Versa. If One of His Parents Were Lame or Blind, Etc. If
He Runs Away Before the Decision Was Rendered. Concerning
Burglary and If a Burglar Deserves Capital Punishment, Must Pay
the Damage Caused By Breaking in |
Chapter 9 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning Those to Whom Burning and
Those to Whom Slaying Applies. Who Is Considered A Murderer Deserving Capital
Punishment and Who Is to Be Exiled. Those Who Recovered After they Were
Diagnosed to Die; Killing Some Other One instead of Those Whom He Had intended |
Chapter 10 |
Rules and Regulations Concerning Those to Whom Choking
Applies. Concerning A Rebelling Judge; What Shall Be His Crime For Which He Is
to Be Executed; At Which Place and With Which Kind of Death. And Concerning a
False Prophet |
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Volume 16 Tract Sanhedrin Part II - (Haggada)
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Chapter 11 |
The Haggadic Part about Resurrection; Shares in the World
to Come; and About the Messiah, Etc. |
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