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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>>> the gmara often lists , eg acts that
can as a single act genrate <BR>multiple chiyuvim
of chatat for example. and there is a
general <BR>sense of intensity of sin thru the punishment -- payment,
makot, mitat <BR>beit din, etc<BR>i think other religions have
considerations of what is the WORST sin <BR>one can
commit.<BR><BR>i wonder if we have a WORST. i
thought chillul hashem is the worst. <BR>but i
have also come across shichvat zera levatala as
the worst . <BR>[ this would be interesting if
true, since the tora doesnt mention <BR>it
directly post-sinai, nor list a punishment [? un-atonable?]
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<DIV>I am sorry I do not remember how he said it, but I once asked my
father about that and he replied -- this is a paraphrase, NOT the words he used
-- that it was an obvious guzma, meant to frighten people away from doing an
aveira which many (most?) people are nichshol in at some time in their
lives but which the Torah nevertheless wants them to refrain from. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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