Questions tagged [reward-punishment]
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Why should we be punished for the sin of the primordial father?
My kid asked:
I understand that Adam and Eve violated God's command by eating from the tree of knowledge and thus deserved punishment: as described in Genesis, Adam would have to work for his food ...
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Are gentiles obligated to fear Hashem (or at least fear punishment)?
As Jews we are commanded to fear Hashem and fear punishment to help us avoid sinning.
See Chinuch 432 for example:
ונוהגת מצוה זו בכל מקום ובכל זמן ובכל מין האדם, וזאת אחת מן המצות התמידיות על ...
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Is there any reward for the intent or attempt to do a mitzvah?
As per the title, does one earn any reward/s'char for the attempt (or even just the intent) to perform a mitzvah?
This evening, we all piled out of shul to say Kiddush Levana only to find that the ...
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Torah Study in English
Will one receive the reward of Learning Torah if they read the Tanach, Gemara, Shulchan Aruch, etc. in English if English is their mother tongue? Please cite sources.
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Judaism's view of pagans/polytheists [duplicate]
How does Judaism view pagans or polytheists? Will they be burnt in hell for eternity like what Christianity and Islam say?
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Reward for keeping Minhagim and Chumros
Over the years many Chumros and Minhagim have been created. For example, waiting 6 hours between meat and milk for Ashkenazim. Or not eating gebrochts on Pesach. So if it is a Minhag that cannot be ...
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Implications of “According to Your fear is Your anger” (“כיראתך עברתך”)
It says in Tehillim 90 (a chapter attributed to Moshe Rabbeinu, if that affects anything):
יא: מִֽי־י֖וֹדֵעַ עֹ֥ז אַפֶּ֑ךָ וּ֜כְיִרְאָֽתְךָ֗ עֶבְרָתֶֽךָ: לִמְנ֣וֹת
יָ֖מֵינוּ כֵּ֥ן הוֹדַ֑ע ...
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Giving your z'chus to someone else
B"H, I did - or almost did - a good deed. (It will be finalized bez"H in a mazeldiker shoh.) However, when I found out a few months ago that a good result from my actions was on the horizon, I decided ...
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Why does one receive reward for saying they will give tzedaka?
The Tosefta in Peah (4:17) states that if a person says they will give tzedaka and then gives it, they receive divine reward both for the "saying" and for the "giving." And in a case where the person ...
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A man tells us he raped a woman
The Torah says the following about a man who rapes a woman (Deuteronomy 22:29).
וְ֠נָתַן הָאִ֨ישׁ הַשֹּׁכֵ֥ב עִמָּ֛הּ לַאֲבִ֥י הנער [הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖ה] חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים כָּ֑סֶף וְלֽוֹ־תִהְיֶ֣ה לְאִשָּׁ֗ה ...
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Was Iyov rewarded for passing his first test?
In Iyov chapter 1 Satan proposes to God to test Iyov's fidelity to God by striking Iyov's possessions. God agrees and Iyov loses essentially everything. At the end of chapter 1 and again in chapter 2 ...
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Using אוהביו, יראיו, חסידיו in Chovas Halevavos referring to those who receive additional reward
ספר חובות הלבבות - שער הביטחון - פרק רביעי
Chovos Halevavos (Duties of the Heart) Shaar Habitachon (Gate of Trust) Chapter 4:
ועניני העולם הבא יחלקו לשני חלקים ... והשני שהוא מחסד הבורא יתעלה על ...
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What is the punishment for someone who talks another person into committing suicide?
There's a famous case in the US of a young woman who basically pressures her online boyfriend to kill himself. The evidence was particularly damning against her and the case is clear that if she hadn'...
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Not finding your bashert is a punishment for doing zera levatala?
Are there Kabbalistic or Talmudic sources saying that not finding your bashert is a punishment for doing zera levatala (wasteful seminal emission)? I heard a popular rabbi make this claim in a class ...
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Is there a limit to rewards on single acts?
According to the principle of kam lei b'derabah minei קם ליה בדרבה מיניה a single improper act incurs the strictest penalty even if more than one violation occurs.
Is there a parallel limit to the ...
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Do woman get reward for not shaving their payos and beard
Do woman/non-Jews get a reward for not doing things they are permitted to do, and men / Jews are forbidden to do?
I know that if someone does a mitzvah they are not commanded doing, they get a reward....
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Women and the egel
The Leviim were rewarded for not participating in the egel (golden calf) by replacing the buchorim (firstborn) as the workers in the mishkan. But the women also did not participate in the calf. What ...
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Is serving Hashem in order to receive reward in Olam Habah ideal?
משנה אבות פרק א משנה ג
אַל תִּהְיוּ כַעֲבָדִים הַמְשַׁמְּשִׁין אֶת הָרַב עַל מְנָת לְקַבֵּל
פְּרָס, אֶלָּא הֱווּ כַעֲבָדִים הַמְשַׁמְּשִׁין אֶת הָרַב שֶׁלֹּא עַל
מְנָת לְקַבֵּל פְּרָס, וִיהִי ...
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From where/Why do you get more reward for doing a obligated mitzvah than a non obligated mitzvah?
Ive heard (not sure where)that you get more reward for doing a obligated mitzvah than a non obligated mitzvah. Where is this brought down, and whats the reason for this?
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The basic jewish model for reward and punishment
I'd like to understand what is known and not hidden by god in regards the accounting of mitzvas:
What happened after Yom Kipur - does god balance all my miztvas in comparison to sins I made in the ...
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Punishment for Eating Non-Kosher
What is the biblical or talmudic prescribed punishment for knowingly eating meat of a non-kosher animal. I seem to recall some kind of distinction in punishment between eating out of indulgence or ...
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What happens to a gentile if he doesn’t keep the 7 laws [duplicate]
What happens to non Jews who don’t observe the laws like idolatrous things such as Hindus. Will they cease or spend 12 months in gehenom and then go to heaven . What iof their good deeds.
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learning torah for deceased person - is all reward to the deceased?
There is a custom to learn torah (especially mishnayos) for a deceased person. Does all the torah study reward go to the deceased person or does some torah study reward also go to the person learning? ...
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Does a child get reward for Mitzvos performed
It seems non-Jews and women get reward for Mitzvot they do (even the ones they are not obligated to do)*
does this apply also to a "deaf-mute, imbecile or child"?
sources, please
*Sifra Vayikra 18,...
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Do good christians go to heaven when they die (Gan Eden)? [duplicate]
Will Christians have a share in the world to come if they truly did not know that Judaism was true, and were brought up with Jesus their whole lives? And can that same concept be applied to atheist as ...
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Adam and Chava’s Punishment
I’m sure this was asked here multiple times, but I’m having trouble finding it. Can someone please explain to me:
1) how is Adam’s punishment of “eating bread from the sweat of your brow” a ...
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Who gets more rewarded for the Mitzvah of procreation?
The man is obligated in the mitzvah of Pru Urivu (Having children 1 male 1 female) while the woman is not (technically it's a machlokes in the gemara, but we hold of the one that they're not chayav). ...
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Can the שנים שעשו recipe be doubled?
My kid asked: I understand that if two people complete a forbidden activity on Shabas by superfluously joining forces to do a task either could do alone, they don't get the punishment one of them ...
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B'nai Yisra'el complaining about water and food - sometimes punished, sometimes not
There were numerous times that B'nai Yisra'el complained to Moshe (and, sometimes, Aharon) about the lack of food or water in the desert. But, it seems that sometimes G-d punishes them and sometimes ...
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7 laws of Noach - Tinnok Shenishbah [duplicate]
I know in Judaism, we have a concept of "Tinok Shenishba" - does this not apply to a gentile? How will a ben noach at the end of time be punished for not keeping the 7 mitzvah bnei Noach if they are ...
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What can someone do to protect his property/children from children?
From the answers here, the schulchan aruch h"m 349.3 and the aruch hashulchan 349.1:
it seems that if a child (below 12/13 years old) damages you no one is responsible (but is he stole and the thing ...
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Different type of blessing for rain and snow
One of my friends who lived in Israel explained that, of course, precipitation during the "winter" months is vital and it is considered a great blessing from G-d. This we know is alluded to several ...
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How can Hashem judge a person לזכות, favourably, as in הדן חבירו לכף זכות דנין אותו לזכות
The Gemoro Shabbos 127b brings three stories illustrating the principle,
הדן חבירו לכף זכות דנין אותו לזכות
“He who judges his neighbour in the scale of merit is himself judged
favourably.”...
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Spiritual Causes For The Black Death?
From Wiki “The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe in the years ...
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Which sins are specifically punished with earthquake?
There were/are earthquakes in many countries in the world in the past few days.
If earthquake is a form punishment from Hashem, then which sins are punished by such?
I/We can use the answer to ...
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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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What sin(s) would be involved if a married man slept with another woman?
If a married Jewish man had an extramarital relationship with a woman who was not in the category of arayos or issurei biah, what, if any, sins would he have committed, and to what, if any, punishment ...
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Oversight in mikvah preparation; is her husband guilty?
Ordinarily, if we make an honest mistake in our efforts to do a mitzvah--or we do an inadvertent aveira--we are, at least to some extent, forgiven. In any case, our liability, and our obligation to ...
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Why does G-d reward reshaim in this world to punish them in the next, if He is good?
The question of "Why do some reshaim people live a good life, while some good people suffer" is often answered that G-d rewards the rasha in this world, in order to punish him in the world to come for ...
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No criminal punishment for rapists in Judaism? [closed]
Rambam starts Ilkhos Ishus with a negative commandment:
"Not to have relations with a woman unless she has been granted a marriage contract, and the relationship sanctified through the rites of ...
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What does the Rambam say in regards to a sin having to happen?
I have seen it claimed that the Rambam in Shemona Perakim chapter 8 says that if the Torah specifies a punishment, someone must commit the sin, it is just unknown who exactly will earn the punishment (...
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Why do the best of doctors go to Gehinnom according to the Maharsha?
Says the final Mishnah in Kiddushin (82a):
טוב שברופאים לגיהנם
The best of doctors go to Gehinnom
If your name is followed by MD, you may leave now.
The Maharsha is puzzled by why this ...
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Lashes for owning chametz when the Pesach is brought
Rambam in Sefer HaMitzvos Lo Saaseh 115 writes
שבעת שחיטת הפסח והוא בין הערבים לא יהיה חמץ ברשותו לא אצל הזורק ולא אצל השוחט ולא אצל המקטיר ולא אצל אחד מבני החבורה, וכל מי מהם שיהיה חמץ אצלו בעת ...
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Reason for Ein Onshim Min HaDin
There's a concept that אין עונשים מן הדין that appears a bunch of times throughout Shas (Makkos 5b for example). It basically means we don't learn out punishments the same way we learn out obligations....
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Spies punishment midda kneged midda?
Although the spies' punishment through their tongue makes sense for the lashon hara against the land, what is the 'measure for measure' regarding the worms in their navel?
As Sefaria transcribes and ...
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Why did Metatron receive 60 lashes?
In the story of the 4 who entered Pardes (Chagigah starting on 14b) it says that Elisha ben Abuyah saw Metatron the angel sitting and therefore became a heretic. In order to show Elisha that Metatron ...
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What is the punishment before Vayehi Bineso'ah Ha'aron?
Rashi on Bamidbar 10:35 writes based on Shabbos 116a that Vayehi Bineso'ah Ha'aron is moved out of its proper place is to separate between two punishments.
ויהי בנסע הארן" - עשה לו סמניות מלפניו ...
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Why was Tisha B'Av established as a day of crying for those who didn't sin?
Ta'anis 29a teaches that since by the Meraglim the Jews cried for naught, that night, which was Tisha B'av, would be established as a night of crying for all generations.
Why should this be? What ...
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Why did HaShem “need” the punishment to be a day for a year by the Meraglim?
Rashi to Bamidbar 13:25 writes that since the punishment for the spies' false report was to be one year of wandering for each day in Eretz Yisrael, HaShem allowed them to finish miraculously in just ...
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Why did HaShem punish the Benei Yisrael through quail in particular?
According to the Midrash, the Benei Yisrael in Bamidbar 11 wished to have illicit relations with close relatives. In response, HaShem punished them with death via eating quail.
Why was this an ...
