Midrash su Deuteronomio 18:9
כִּ֤י אַתָּה֙ בָּ֣א אֶל־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ נֹתֵ֣ן לָ֑ךְ לֹֽא־תִלְמַ֣ד לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת כְּתוֹעֲבֹ֖ת הַגּוֹיִ֥ם הָהֵֽם׃
Quando verrai nella terra che l'Eterno, il tuo DIO, ti dà, non imparerai a fare dopo le abominazioni di quelle nazioni.
Ein Yaakov (Glick Edition)
Chanina b. Tradion was then brought before them and questioned why he occupied himself with the Torah, and he answered: "Because I am so commanded by the Lord my God." The decree was then rendered that he should be burned, his wife killed, and his daughter to be taken to the house of prostitutes. He to be burned, because (Fol. 18) he used to express the Tetragrammaton as it is written [and not as it is to be read instead]. But why did he so? Did not Aba Shaul say that he who does so has no share in the world to come? He did so in the course of learning, as we are taught in a Baraitha concerning the passage (Deut. 18, 9) Thou shalt not learn to do, i.e., but thou mayest learn to understand and teach. Why then was he punished? We must therefore say that he did it also publicly. His wife to be killed, because she had not prevented his doing so by protesting; from this it is to be inferred that he who feels that his protests would effect and does not protest, is punished therefor. And his daughter to prostitution, because, according to R. Jochanan, it happened once that she walked in the presence of the great people of Rome, and they exclaimed: "How nice are the steps of this girl!" And from that time she took care of her steps to please the spectators. And this is meant by Resh Lakish: "What is the meaning of the passage (Ps. 49, 6) When the iniquity of my supplanters compasseth me about? This means the sins which one commits with his feet in this world will surround him on the day of judgment." When all three went out of the court, they justified the decrees upon them. Chanina said (Deut. 32, 4) He is the Rock, His work is perfect, etc. His wife said, The God of truth and without iniquity; and his daughter said (Jer. 32, 19) Great in council, and mighty in execution (Thou) whose eyes are open over all the ways of the sons of man. Said Rabbi: "How great are these upright that to justify their decrees, the three verses of justification came to their mouths, at the time of so great a trouble."
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Ein Yaakov (Glick Edition)
(Fol. 56) Our Rabbis were taught: Seven commandments were given to Noahides (human race) and they are: Concerning [civil] courts, blasphemy, idolatry, adultery, bloodshed, robbery, and that they must not eat of the member of a body while the animal is still alive." R. Chanina b. Gamaliel says: "Also of the blood of an animal is still alive." R. Chidka says: "Also of impotency." R. Simon says: "Also of sorcery." R. Jose says: "Of all that is written in the chapter of sorcery (Deut. 18, 9, 22) a Noahide is commanded to obsreve." R. Juda says: "Adam was commanded as to idolatry only, as it is said (Gen. 2, 16) And the Lord commanded the man; i.e., the Lord commanded him concerning the law of God." R. Juda b. Bathyra said: "Also as to blasphemy." And there are some others who say also concerning civil courts.
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Sifrei Devarim
(Devarim 18:9) "When you come to the land": Perform the mitzvah stated herein, in whose reward you will enter the land.
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