Parshas Mishpatim (Rebroadcast)
The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe
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What Is the Penalty for a Slave's Death?
In jewish jurisprudence, punishment is not an act of revenge. It's a means of restitution, maybe even expiation. We do not gouge out eyes in a jewish court of law. And here we read that if someone strikes their slave and they knock out a tooth or an eye, orashi points out, we tor id from the talm would really one of their limbs or organs. If your animal causes death, you are responsible to a certain degree. So if an atch doars a man or a woman, or even a child, rashe tells us from a different verse, you have to execute the animal, but the owner is not punished
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