Commentary for Sanhedrin 7:1
אַרְבַּע מִיתוֹת נִמְסְרוּ לְבֵית דִּין, סְקִילָה, שְׂרֵפָה, הֶרֶג, וָחֶנֶק. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, שְׂרֵפָה, סְקִילָה, חֶנֶק, וָהֶרֶג. זוֹ מִצְוַת הַנִּסְקָלִין:
Four death penalties were relegated to beth-din: stoning, burning, decapitation, and strangulation. [Stoning is more severe than burning, and both, than decapitation; and the three of them (are more severe) than strangulation. This is of significance where one is liable to two death penalties, the ruling being that he incurs the more severe.] R. Shimon says: Burning, stoning, strangulation, and decapitation. [The halachah is not in accordance with R. Shimon.] This [(the foregoing)] is execution by stoning.
Bartenura on Mishnah Sanhedrin
ארבע מיתות. סקילה שריפה הרג וחנק – stoning is more severe than burning and both of them [are more severe] than decapitation and the three of them [are more severe] than execution by strangulation. And we derive from it that he who is liable for two death [penalties], we establish that he is judged by the more severe [of the two].
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English Explanation of Mishnah Sanhedrin
Four deaths have been entrusted to the court: stoning, burning, slaying [by the sword] and strangulation.
R. Simeon says: “burning, stoning, strangulation and slaying.”
That (the previous is the manner of stoning.
The first mishnah of chapter seven lists the four types of execution that Jewish law prescribed.
There are four types of death carried out (at least theoretically) according to Jewish law. Our mishnah contains a dispute with regards to which type of execution is harsher than the others. The Sages claim that stoning is the harshest, followed by burning, slaying and strangulation. Rabbi Shimon disagrees. He holds that burning is the harshest, and slaying the least harsh.
The mishnah notes that the previous chapter described how stoning was to be carried out. The following two mishnayoth will describe burning, slaying and strangulation.
R. Simeon says: “burning, stoning, strangulation and slaying.”
That (the previous is the manner of stoning.
The first mishnah of chapter seven lists the four types of execution that Jewish law prescribed.
There are four types of death carried out (at least theoretically) according to Jewish law. Our mishnah contains a dispute with regards to which type of execution is harsher than the others. The Sages claim that stoning is the harshest, followed by burning, slaying and strangulation. Rabbi Shimon disagrees. He holds that burning is the harshest, and slaying the least harsh.
The mishnah notes that the previous chapter described how stoning was to be carried out. The following two mishnayoth will describe burning, slaying and strangulation.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Sanhedrin
רבי שמעון אומר וכו' – but Halakah is not according to Rabbi Shimon.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Sanhedrin
זו מצות הנסקלין – this is explained in the above chapter (i.e., Chapter six, Mishnah four).
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