[Avodah] your brother?

Joel Rich joelirarich at mail.gmail.com
Wed May 3 03:38:45 PDT 2023


Devarim 25:3 says:
    Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he
    should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy
    brother should be dishonoured before thine eyes.

Rambam Sanhedrin 17:7 says:
    Whenever a person sins and is lashed, he returns to his original
    state of acceptability, as implied by the verse: "And your brother
    will be degraded before your eyes." Once he is lashed, he is "your
    brother." Similarly, all those obligated for *kerait* who received
    lashes are absolved for *kerait*.


Question-
Does this mean that in shamayim (as well as here), it's as if he never
did the original sin? If not, how do we/HKBH view the individual pre
and post lashes?



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