Today’s Talmud page, Makkot 22, finally sheds light on one of the tractate’s central questions—namely, just how many lashes a person sentenced to lashing must receive. Why did the rabbis subtract one lash from the number indicated in the Torah? And what could their behavior teach us as we think of crime and punishment? Listen and find out.
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