אַל־תִּפְנ֤וּ אֶל־הָאֹבֹת֙ וְאֶל־הַיִּדְּעֹנִ֔ים אַל־תְּבַקְשׁ֖וּ לְטָמְאָ֣ה בָהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃
<span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Este es el <b>8vo Precepto Negativo</b> enumerado por el Rambam en el Prefacio a Mishné Torá, su “Compendio de la Ley Hebrea” para todo el Pueblo de Israel.',event);" onmouseout="Close();">No os volváis a</span> los encantadores <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Este es el <b>9no Precepto Negativo</b> enumerado por el Rambam en el Prefacio a Mishné Torá, su “Compendio de la Ley Hebrea” para todo el Pueblo de Israel.',event);" onmouseout="Close();">y a los adivinos</span>: no los consultéis ensuciándoos con ellos: Yo soy el Señor, vuestro Dios.
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin
MISHNAH: One who gives any of his descendants to the Moloch is only guilty if he delivers him to the Moloch and makes him pass through fire. If he delivered him to the Moloch but did not make him pass through fire, or made him pass though fire but did not deliver him to the Moloch, is only guilty if he delivers him to the Moloch and makes him pass through fire. The necromancer is the Πύθων285Πύθων, -ωνος, ὁ, “the serpent Python”, a spirit of divination. The plural πύθωνες “ventriloquists”. and one who286In the Babli and the independent Mishnah mss: the Πύθων who speaks from his armpit. speaks from his armpit. The medium58Lev. 20:27. The necromancer is the person who raises the spirits of the dead; cf. 1S. 28. The medium is one who incorporates a spirit which predicts the future, speaking from the medium’s body, not his mouth. speaks through his mouth. These are stoned but one who consults them is forewarned.287While turning to necromancers and fortune-tellers is repeatedly forbidden (Lev. 19:31, Deut. 18:10–11), no punishment is spelled out in the biblical text.
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin
From where the warning about the necromancer? Do not turn to the necromancers326Lev. 19:31. Here starts the discussion of the second part of the Mishnah.. From where extirpation? A person who would turn to necromancers and mediums327Lev. 20:6., etc. Punishment from where? A man or woman, impersonating a necromancer or a medium, shall be put to death328Lev. 20:27.. Why is the medium not mentioned in Keritut329Mishnah Keritut 1:1 mentions only the necromancer, not the medium.? Rebbi Ḥizqiah in the name of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish: Because they are taken together in one prohibition, do not turn to the necromancers330In all pentateuchal verses mentioning אוֹב it is paired with יִדְּעוֹנִי (the verses quoted plus Deut. 18:11). Babli 65b., etc. Rebbi Yasa in the name of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish: Because it is a prohibition implied by a positive commandment331Cf. 5:3, Note 73. This formulation does not make any sense, as indicated by R. Zeˋira’s question. It should have been formulated: Because the medium is treated as an appendix to the necromancer. The medium never creates an obligation for a purification offering if one for necromancy already was established; he cannot be mentioned in Keritut_1:1 separately from the necromancer.. Rebbi Zeˋira said before Rebbi Yasa: No person except you thought of stating the medium in this way in Keritut. He told him, because as the verse formulated it so the Mishnah formulates it, a necromancer or a medium330In all pentateuchal verses mentioning אוֹב it is paired with יִדְּעוֹנִי (the verses quoted plus Deut. 18:11). Babli 65b..
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin
“The necromancer is the πύθων285Πύθων, -ωνος, ὁ, “the serpent Python”, a spirit of divination. The plural πύθωνες “ventriloquists”. and one who286In the Babli and the independent Mishnah mss: the Πύθων who speaks from his armpit. speaks from his armpit. The medium58Lev. 20:27. The necromancer is the person who raises the spirits of the dead; cf. 1S. 28. The medium is one who incorporates a spirit which predicts the future, speaking from the medium’s body, not his mouth. speaks through his mouth. These are stoned but one who consults them is forewarned287While turning to necromancers and fortune-tellers is repeatedly forbidden (Lev. 19:31, Deut. 18:10–11), no punishment is spelled out in the biblical text.. And one who asks the dead332Deut. 18:11. No criminal sanction is spelled out for this.. 333Tosephta 10:7, explaining the term “interrogating the dead”. In the Babli, 65b, the same baraita explains the term “necromancer”. Some Tannaïm state: this is one who interrogates a skull. Some Tannaïm state: this is one who interrogates his334,The dead.173The form זְכוּר denotes, if not the penis, then the male as appendix to his sex organ. masculinity. What is the difference between one interrogated by his skull or one raised by his masculinity? The one interrogated by his skull rises normally, rises on the Sabbath, and a commoner can raise a king. But one raised by his masculinity does not rise normally335The dead appears feet up, head down., does not rise on the Sabbath, and a commoner cannot raise a king.