Daily Mitzvah, Day 316: Don’t Allow a Sorcerer to Live - Punishment by Flogging
Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 316 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.
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Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the Spiritual Leader and Executive Director of Chabad Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, serving one of Canada’s most dynamic Jewish communities. He also serves as Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service. He is an active member of Toronto’s Vaad HaRabbanim (Council of Orthodox Rabbis), and a voting member of the COR Kashruth Council of Canada’s executive rabbinical board. Rabbi Kaplan is featured regularly on many local television and radio shows. He is a sought after speaker, with hundreds of lectures on Chabad.org. He and his wife, Faygie, are blessed with eight children. Artistically endowed, the rabbi enjoys drawing, sketching and creating charcoal portraits.
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Teresa Daly
July 14, 2022
I would be interested to know exactly what sorcery was/is? I understand necromancy, but not sorcery. I guess I always thought it was something that could be practiced in secret, so that no witnesses would actually outright know. I thought it was something like 'charm', even to the point of praying to the wrong gods for a selfish motive. And then that selfish motive transpiring, when it inflicted suffering, hurt and pain upon another or others. Reply
Mendel Fogelman for Chabad.org
July 21, 2022
in response to Teresa Daly:
You may be interested in reading through the description provided by Maimonides in his Laws of Idol-Worship, Chapter 11. There he gives a layer of detail to the various occult practices recorded in the Torah. Here's a link. Reply
how do you determine whom is a sorcerer or wizard and what is their punishments?
It not something for ordinary/lay people to determine. Leave to the experts, and besides not pragmatically relevant in todays day and age... the important thing for us is to learn, understand and know what the mitzvot are
Does not answer my point of the statement.
I beg to respectfully differ. The question was how do YOU determine. And the answer is YOU don't.