[Avodah] Arayot and Mitat Beit Din

[Zev Sero]

Galsaba at aol.com wrote:
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> My understanding is that Mitat Beit Din is more severe punishment than 
> Karet. Reading the peirush Rashi in Devarim 23 pasuk 1-4, and Rambam 
> "Isurei Bi'ah" Perek Alef, I understand that in Arayot whenever one gets 
> Mitat Beit Din, he gets also Karet.  My questions are:
> 1. Do I understand this right?
> 2. Is it only in Arayot?
> 3. Is it not contcredit the rule of not having two punishments on one 
> aveira?

A person can't be punished twice for the same avera, but who ever said
that the same avera can't carry a variety of possible punishments?
On the contrary, every avera that is punished by karet is also punished
by malkot if the person happens to be convicted in BD.  If the person
does end up getting malkot he can't also get karet, because he's already
been punished and is now "achicha", so the karet never happens.  In the
case of someone who has been executed we don't even need that reasoning;
what would karet *mean* to someone who is already dead?


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