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Daily Mitzvah, Day 316: Don’t Allow a Sorcerer to Live - Punishment by Flogging

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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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Witchcraft; Sorcery; Black Magic, Malkot, Sefer HaMitzvot

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Daniel Issac Berele Chicago July 17, 2024

how do you determine whom is a sorcerer or wizard and what is their punishments? Reply

Mendel Kaplan Thornhill July 17, 2024
in response to Daniel Issac Berele:

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 Reply

Daniel Chicago,illinois July 19, 2024
in response to Mendel Kaplan:

Does not answer my point of the statement. Reply

Mendel Kaplan Thornhill July 22, 2024
in response to Daniel :

I beg to respectfully differ. The question was how do YOU determine. And the answer is YOU don't. Reply

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

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