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에스겔 16:78의 Responsa

Teshuva MeAhava Part I

2) “Do not take His name in vain” is one of the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments, as is “Do not commit adultery.” Would we argue that “do not commit adultery” was said only about one who has sex with the wife of a Jew, but not with a gentile woman? We maintain that if zealots harmed and killed someone who has sex with a non-Jewish woman, they are praiseworthy and conscientious. The proof is the story of Phineas and Zimri. This is more severe than court-imposed capital punishment, for those cases require the warning of the witnesses as well as a court. For this severe transgression, however, we require neither warning nor court according to Maimonides in the Laws of Forbidden Sexual Relations 12:4. And even according to Raavad ad loc., if they warned him and then killed him, they are praiseworthy, but if they did not warn him they are not praiseworthy. However, they speak one language and make one statement that if they killed him, they are exempt. This is a matter of law transmitted to Moses at Sinai, as explained in Sanhedrin 82a. The prophet remonstrated Israel: ”You played the whore with your neighbors, the lustful Egyptians—you multiplied your harlotries to anger Me… In your insatiable lust you also played the whore with the Assyrians; you played the whore with them, but were still unsated. You multiplied your harlotries with Chaldea” (Ezekiel 16:26, 28-9). There are many similar statements.
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