[Avodah] Insanity

[Rich, Joel]

To bring this back to Avodah relevance, I have never heard of a case in Torah in which a murderer has been set free because they were insane.

*** Rena

My guess is if this is true, it would be because of the power of a melech to run a civil society, I can't imagine how one could give valid hatrah to one who is incapable of understanding it (iiuc hatrah is a din in the recipient not the givers -e.g. if the recipient was warned in a language that he did not understand)
KT
Joel Rich
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