Sanhedrin

112 pages summarized and illuminated.

• 2Monetary Cases are Judged by Courts of Three (Criminal)
• 3Dissenting Views on the Number of Judges
• 4Written or Pronounced Torah Words
• 5Permission to Judge
• 6Settle or Go To Court?
• 7Common Wisdom and Torah
• 8One Who Defames His Wife
• 9Reasons for Disagreement on Defamer
• 10Split Testimony
• 11Leap Years
• 12When to Declare a Leap Year
• 13Semichah of the Sages
• 14The Decapitation of the Calf
• 15Appraisals
• 16Judging the Tribe, the Prince, the High Priest
• 17The Great Sanhedrin
• 18Size of a Town Fit to Have a Sanhedrin
• 19The King
• 20Privileges of a King
• 21Laws of the King
• 22One's First Wife
• 23Selecting Judges for Monetary Cases
• 24Retraction of Judge Selection
• 25Those Ineligible to be Judges or Witnesses
• 26Seventh-year (Shmita) Merchants
• 27Disqualified Witness
• 28Relatives Disqualified as Judges or Witnesses
• 29Courtroom Proceedings and Hearsay
• 30Are Court Proceedings Public?
• 31Limitations on Submitting Evidence
• 32Inquiry and Questioning in Monetary and Capital Cases
• 33Reversing Court Verdict
• 34Who Can Advance Arguments Pro and Con?
• 35Capital Cases are not Judged on Fridays
• 36Description of the Sanhedrin Trying a Capital Case
• 37One Should Say, "The World Was Created for My Sake"
• 38Know What to Answer a Heretic
• 39Questions about Torah and Jews
• 40Examination of Witnesses in Capital Cases
• 41Warning Given to the Murderer
• 42Once A Verdict Has Been Reached
• 43Distance Between The Court and the Place of Execution
• 44Achan and Joshua
• 45Stoning
• 46Hanging After Stoning
• 47The Honor of the Dead
• 48Deriving Benefit from a Corpse
• 49Four Methods of Execution
• 50Comparisons of Executions' Severity
• 51Irrelevant Laws
• 52Burning, Beheading
• 53Who is Stoned
• 54Why is the Animal Also Stoned?
• 55Self-Copulation
• 56The Blasphemer
• 57The 7 Noahide Laws
• 58Noahide Marital Laws
• 59Eating Meat
• 60Idol Worship Liability
• 61Intention to Worship Idols
• 62Multiple Acts of Service in One Period of Unawareness
• 63Joining God with Other Powers
• 64Love for Idol Worship
• 65Molech, Ov, Yidoni
• 66Cursing One's Parents, Having Relations with a Betrothed Maiden
• 67Instigator to Idolatry
• 68Wayward and Rebellious Son
• 69The Age of Wayward and Rebellious Son
• 70What Must a Boy Do to Earn the Designation of Wayward and Rebellious Son
• 71Exclusions from the Law of Wayward and Rebellious Son
• 72Judgment on the Account of the Ultimate End
• 73Preventing a Criminal at the Cost of his Life
• 74Use of Lesser Force
• 75Who is Burned
• 76Who is Beheaded
• 77No Liability for Indirect Killing
• 78Group Murder, Partial Recovery
• 79Aiming at One, but Killing Another
• 80Murderer Mix-Up
• 81Indirect Death Sentence
• 82Extrajudicial Executions
• 83Transgressions and Punishments of a Kohen
• 84Who is Strangled
• 85Striking and Cursing a Parent, Selling a Kidnapped into Slavery
• 86A Rebellious Sage
• 87What Has the Rebellious Sage Done?
• 88How is a Judge Selected to High Court
• 89False Prophet
• 90Share in the World to Come
• 91Defense Against the Canaanites Who Wanted Israel Back
• 92The Resurrection of the Dead
• 93Daniel, Chananyah, Mishael, and Azariyah
• 94Chizkiah and Sancheiriv
• 95David, Yishbi, and Avishai
• 96Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, and the Temple
• 97The Generation at the Time of the Mashiach and The Age of the World
• 98The Signs of the Coming of the Mashiach
• 99Torah Study as the Meaning of Life
• 100The Book of Ben Sira
• 101Suffering is Precious
• 102The Three Kings
• 103Menasheh's Repentance
• 104The Importance of Giving People Food and Drink
• 105Has God Divorced Himself from the Jewish People?
• 106Balaam's Advice, Doeg's Learning
• 107King David and Bathsheba
• 108Bad Generations
• 109Life in the Ark
• 110Not to Persist in Quarrel
• 111Does One Have to Fulfill the Entire Torah?
• 112Subverted City
• 113The Three Keys