[Avodah] The impracticality of Torah criminal law
Marty Bluke
marty.bluke at mail.gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 07:55:36 PST 2025
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 5:42PM Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>> 1. The parallel justice system is not described anywhere, not in the
>> written Torah and not in the oral Torah. Why not? Do we have any idea what
> Tzedeq tzedeq tirdof and other such phrases that become platitudes are
> about having justice in general.
> And if it's one of the 7 Mitzvos Benei Noach, wouldn't we be obligated too?
You mentioned the 7 mitzvos of Bnei Noach with regards to dinim. That also
is a very difficult area. There are no guidelines at all given in the Torah
to what is dinim. How are the non Jews supposed to figure out what kind of
justice system to create?
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