re: #306 LudwigVanQuixote

You’re right. But if this activity has been going on for a long time, it might be a capital case. I think that even though there is no Sanhedrin, each of us has to try to think as if there were, and as if we might be on it. Which makes the two operative concepts: be meticulous, walk softly.

And if it’s a civil case, then there wouldn’t be a death penalty anyway—and the death penalty is for those considered evil, and we both know how infrequently that was ever used—despite the impression folks get from a simple reading of the Torah.

Not only that, how in the world do you figure restitution?

I was thinking that the harsher penalty might come because this contributes to the Blood Libel and is a chillul Hashem.

Anyway, it’s neither here nor there, the organization has been stopped, there will be a trial, and some folks are going to jail for a long time. And that’s the best we can do right now.