{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/tsa/tsa20.htm","path":"jud/tsa/tsa20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/tsa/tsa20.htm","text":"Tractate Sanhedrin, Herbert Danby tr. [1919]\nM.VII. 5. The blasphemer 2 is not guilty until he have expressly uttered the Name. According to R. Jehoshua, the son of Karha, the witnesses throughout are examined by means of pseudonyms: 3 for example \" Jose strikes Jose.\" But when the trial is over the sentence is not carried out under a pseudonym: all are sent out of the room except the chief witness, and it is said to him: \"Say expressly what you heard.\" He does so, whereupon the judges stand up and rend their clothes; 4 and they may not mend them again. The second witness then says, \"I heard the same,\" and the third says, \"I too heard the same.\"\n98:2 See Lev. 24. 10 ff. According to the Talmud (cf. Yoma 39 b), the pronunciation of the Sacred Name was at one time known to all; but \"from the time that Simon the Just died\"--the customary expression for the beginning of the Hellenistic period--it was gradually forgotten.\n98:3 The witnesses who had heard the blasphemy might not repeat the words, but made use of an arbitrary formula to describe the crime.\n98:4 Cf. Mark 14. 63; Matt. 26. 65.","title":"Tractate Sanhedrin: IV. Offenders Liable to Capital Punis...","type":"page"}