Questions tagged [karet]
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Are there two things from which kares can cut one off?
In B'midbar 19:13 the Torah says that the punishment for entering the mikdash while impure is spiritual excision, using the words
וְנִכְרְתָה הַנֶּפֶשׁ הַהִוא מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל. . .
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In a mixed marriage, is a Jewish woman liable for kareit if they have relations while she's niddah?
I know that per torah, if a (Jewish) man has relations with a woman who is niddah he is punished with kareit. I have been told that in this case the woman is also punished with kareit.
Is the woman'...
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What are the implications of karet?
Does karet mean the soul will not ever enter the olam haba? Can teshuvah rectify the transgression which lead to the karet? Can that soul in another re-incarnation rectify the blemish of karet? By "...
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How to explain Matzah Shemurah in 18 minutes
(Not to be confused with this question)
How can one explain Matzah to a curious colleague in under 18 minutes?
So far I have been asked:
Why does it need to be extra watched? (I've shown her Sh. 12:...
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How does one recover from Karet?
I know Teshuva will solve any transgression. Is there anything else that is required to heal one's self spiritually in the case of relations of a Jewish man with a Jewish woman who is a niddah?
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Yom Kippur more lenient than Shabbos?
The potential punishment for an av melacha on Shabbos is stoning (ch"v). (Obviously, only under certain circumstances and after repeated attempts to dissuade the sinner.) However, I learned here that ...
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"Boel Aramis": analogue for a woman?
We know that if a man has relations with a non-Jewess, the halacha is
A zealot may kill him in the act (Sanhedrin 82a).
Both R' Schneersohn (the last one -- in Sichos) and R' Tzadok haCohen miLublin (...
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Rabbinical violations that are punishable by death?
Are there any rabbinical violations that carry the punishment of kareit (or other death penalty)?
I'm wondering because of this answer--which suggests that the prohibition on relations with a non-...
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Capital Punishment and Kares simultaneously
I always understood that if a person does something that warrants capital punishment, and there are witnesses who warned them against the crime, that's all they are punished with. If it was done ...
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Is kares a greater punishment than capital punishment, or vice versa?
In many cases (e.g., no warning, no witnesses) a capital crime is not punished by a beis din, but instead the offender gets kares. Let's assume for the purposes of this question that kares includes ...
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List of sins punishable by excision or death
Where please can I find a list of the sins punishable by korais (excision) and those punishable by death?
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What is the relation between transgressions punished with karet and those punished with death?
K'ritot 2a says there are 36 transgressions for which the punishment is karet and provides a list (including idol-worship, various sexual transgressions, eating chametz on Pesach, desecrating Shabbat, ...
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Is there a difference between "kareis" and "misas be'dei shamayim?"
They sound very similar- is there a difference between them or are they interchangeable and pretty much mean the same thing?
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If somebody is over 60 and does an aveirah for which the punishment is misah biyedei shamayim, what happens?
I was learning today's Tanya (יג תמוז, beginning of אגרת התשובה פרק ד)
I have a question based on the following part:
כשעבר עבירה שחייבים עליה כרת, הי׳ מת ממש קודם חמשים שנה
A violator of a sin ...
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Why do pigul, nosar, and tame incur kares?
As described in e.g. Rambam hilchos Pisule Hamukdashin chapter 18, there are bunch of things that render a korban invalid, and someone who eats from it gets whipped. However, there are three types of ...
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Penalty of kareis not applicable today?
I heard a rabbi say that the penalty of kareis does not really exist today, because we do not appreciate the concept of infinity, or something to this effect. Does anyone know where this rabbi would ...
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Noted instances of Kares and Ariri
Are there any written recordings in any branch of Torah where we find a comment proving someone actually died from Kares/Ariri?
Now, of course being a heavenly decree it would be hard to know for ...
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Is laying with a woman during her separation worthy of death or just uncleanness?
In Leviticus 15:19 and 24 (JPS), we are told: “And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until ...
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In Orthodox Judaism, can a person repent for a sin normatively punished by death?
Say someone commits a sin that is normatively punished by death - can one perform teshuva and be forgiven in such a case? Is the situation different for sins classified as yehareg ve'al ya'avor (...
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No kares for adultery with an arusa
I was listening to this lecture by Rav Herschel Schachter and near the end he parenthetically mentioned that there's an opinion of the Maharam MiRotenburg and Tosafos HaRosh in Yevamos that there's ...
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What does Kares actually mean?
I want to give a shiur in Shul about Shabbat and how it Rambam and others say that one gets Kares if one doesn't keep it and it says in the Chumash 'that he is cut of from his people'.
A person came ...
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Karet and No Share in ha'olam Haba
What is the difference between a person who died without doing teshuva on his sins on Karet, Eternal gehinnom and having no share in the world to come?
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Caret for an intentional Sin punishable by Death when there are no witnesses
We know that Sins punishable by death are punished when there are witnesses and warning. We also know that when there are no witnesses, but the sin is made intentionally, the punishment is Caret (1). ...
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What specific acts with a nidah constitute karet
I'm new and starting out. But karet sounds serious. Is it just the standard intimate relationship that gives karet or does unnatural and other practices as well. What about kissing or other non ...
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How can one know if he is chaiv keret?
One can know if one is chaiv (liable to) mitah (death penalty), makkos (lashes), mammon (money) - the beit din says. But how can one know if he is chaiv karet (being cut off)? Also, does karet require ...
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How can the Mishnah derive that lashes exempt kares, from a pasuk speaking only about one liable for lashes?
The Mishnah in Makkot 23a says
"All those liable to receive karet who were flogged in court were exempted from their karet
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as it is stated with regard to one liable to receive ...
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Does eating non-kosher meat incur the punishment of Kareth?
This question is not about standards of kashrut -- which are of course a serious topic -- but rather the question of "grave sins" for which the death penalty is prescribed, or the consequence of "...
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How can Kares be greater than execution by beis din (and also eternal according to R' Kapach)?
In this exposition of what kares means, the following view is quoted:
[...] R. Yosef Kafach (Mishneh Torah, Hilkhos Teshuvah ch. 8 n. 4) offers a different interpretation. He suggests that the Rambam’...
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Is everyone who dies in his 50s Chayav Kares?
I've come across a bunch of great Rabbanim: Poskim, Mekubalim and Tzadikim who passed away within their 50s.
The Gemara in Moed Katan 28a says:
אמר רבה: [מיתה] מחמשים ועד ששים שנה זו היא מיתת כרת....
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What is the punishment spelled out explicitly in the Torah for having relations with a post-menstrual woman who has not gone to the Mikvah?
The accepted halacha is that one who has relations with a woman who is a niddah is punished with kares. But if a woman is no longer menstruating (let's assume several days after it stops), but has ...
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Eating leavened bread on Passover [closed]
The Rambam says, "Anyone who eats an olive's volume of leavened bread on Passover beginning on the night of the 15th until the end of the 21st of Nissan intentionally is obligated to [a punishment of] ...
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Sexual Relations with a married woman that's asur to her husband
Is it ok for a man to have relations with a married woman who's already been unfaithful to her husband?
Is there still an isur kareth?
Or since she's already prohibited from being with her husband and ...
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Karet for eating chametz on Pesach - Where is the line drawn?
As I understand it, for something to count as a single act of eating, it must meet two requirements.
The amount ingested must be the minimum of Kezayit. Some hold this to literally be the volume of ...
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