[Avodah] The Sin Of Reuven

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From: "Jay F Shachter" Subject: 
...  Very
often Hakkthav V'Haqqabala will come up with something entirely
plausible.  For example, the book proposes that in Genesis 38:24 Tamar
was being taken out, not to be burnt alive, but to be branded.  I
think that that is quite probably the straightforward meaning of the
verse: the branding of criminals was a not uncommon practice among
Bney Noax, and this interpretation is, moreover, proposed by other
traditional Jewish sources.
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Correct. The Baal Haturim beshem RY Hachosid.

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