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The plumbing and carry the tub somewhere. You tell someone to take a bath, it doesn’t mean you want the person to rip out Is clearly not meant to be taken literally, just as in the English language, if In every single Jewish court that has functioned from the days of Moses our This is what ourĪncestors saw in the court of Joshua and in the court of Samuel of Ramah, and Interpretations are obvious from the study of the Written Law, and they areĮxplicitly mentioned in the Oral Tradition transmitted by Moses from Mountįrom Moses (i.e. Logical deductions, the meaning of this phrase is known to us through Restitution for a life that was taken, implying that in other cases we do give monetary compensation. One kills another, the Torah makes a point of telling us that one cannot give
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That the meaning of the same word with regard to an eye or another limb is also We learn that the word tachat (תחת) mentioned with regard to aīlow indicates the necessity for financial restitution, and so one can conclude he should pay for hisīeing idled and for his medical expenses." 5 Thus, Giving a colleague a blow, it is explicitly stated: "When a man strikes "an eye for an eye," is financial restitution? That same verseĬontinues "a blow for a blow." And with regard to the penalty for That the intent of the Torah's statement with regard to the loss of a limb, Had only one functioning eye before the incident? Or the victim’s eye was onlyĭamaged to a third of his previous vision, but he can still somewhat see? Meant to fulfill the injunction “an eye for an eye”? What if one of the parties What if the perpetrator is himself blind-how are we To the Oral Torah, this is a directive for monetary compensation to the injuredĭemonstrate that these verses aren’t meant to be read literally. Phrase was never understood or applied in the literal sense. Mean that we actually poke out the eye of an eye-poker? Contrary to what some Phrase “an eye for an eye” is found in a number of places in the Bible.