Saturday 26 June 2021

36 capital offences of the Torah

  1. Intercourse between a man and his mother.
  2. Intercourse between a man and his father's wife (not necessarily his mother).
  3. Intercourse between a man and his daughter in law.
  4. Intercourse with another man's wife from the first stage of marriage.
  5. Intercourse between two men.
  6. Bestiality.
  7. Cursing the name of God in God's name.
  8. Idol worship.
  9. Giving one's progeny to Molech (child sacrifice).
  10. Necromancy sorcery.
  11. Pythonic sorcery.
  12. Attempting to convince another to worship idols.
  13. Instigating a community to worship idols.
  14. Witchcraft.
  15. Violating the Sabbath.
  16. Cursing one's own parent.
  17. Ben sorer umoreh, a stubborn and rebellious son.
  18. The daughter of a priest who completed the second stage of marriage commits adultery.
  19. Intercourse between a man and his daughter.
  20. Intercourse between a man and his daughter's daughter.
  21. Intercourse between a man and his son's daughter.
  22. Intercourse between a man and his wife's daughter (not necessarily his own daughter).
  23. Intercourse between a man and his wife's daughter's daughter.
  24. Intercourse between a man and his wife's son's daughter.
  25. Intercourse between a man and his mother in law.
  26. Intercourse between a man and his mother in law's mother.
  27. Intercourse between a man and his father in law's mother.
  28. Unlawful premeditated murder.
  29. Being a citizen of an Ir nidachat, a "city that has gone astray".
  30. Committing adultery with another man's wife, when it does not fall under the above criteria.
  31. Wounding one's own parent.
  32. Kidnapping another Israelite.
  33. Prophesying falsely.
  34. Prophesying in the name of other deities.
  35. A sage who is guilty of insubordination in front of the grand court in the Chamber of the Hewn Stone.

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