Question about judaism?

Question

do jews TODAY still follow the jewish customs like in the OT? and if a person breaks a Levitical Law can the person be stoned according to the Law? i know how it was in the OT but not really much knowledge at all how it is today & ty

Answer 1

yes, we do, and no, they cannot.

judaism in general is not very pro-death penalty.

"Although the Hebrew Bible has many references to capital punishment, the Jewish sages used their authority, and the demands for justice emphasized in the Bible, to make it all but impossible for a Jewish court to impose a death sentence. Even when such a sentence might have been imposed, the "cities of refuge" and other sanctuaries, were at hand for those unintentionally guilty of capital offences. It was said in the Talmud about the death penalty in Judaism, that if a court killed one person in seventy years, it was a barbarous (or "bloody") court and should be condemned as such.

Historically Rabbinic law developed a detailed system of checks and balances to prevent the execution of an innocent person, and these were so restrictive as to effectively legislate the penalty out of existence. The law requires that:

There must have been two witnesses to the crime, and these must conform to a prescribed list of criteria.
The witnesses must have verbally warned the person that they were liable for the death penalty
The person must then have acknowledged that he or she was warned, and yet then have gone ahead and committed the sin regardless.
No individual was allowed to testify against him or herself."

if a person didn't meet all of the above critera, they were not allowed to be given a sentence of the death penalty. as well, according to the talmud, even if a person DOES meet all of these critera, if every member of the juror finds that person guilty, the criminal is automatically acquitted of his crime and set free.

Answer 2

it depends which customs you are referring to some have evolved and changed over time.

as for breaking of a law that carries the death penalty that has not been done in over 2,000 years.

The reason for this that their has not been a court of the type necessary or with the power to carry out such laws. Even during biblical times executions were as infrequent as they are in the United States.

Answer 3

JEWS have evolved over the centuries unlike many others.


Peace..