{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/tsa/tsa31.htm","path":"jud/tsa/tsa31.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/tsa/tsa31.htm","text":"Tractate Sanhedrin, Herbert Danby tr. [1919]\nM. VIII. 6. The housebreaker 1 is condemned in view of what he might do afterwards. If in his breaking through he have broken a barrel, where there would be blood-guiltiness 2 (if the householder killed him) he is liable (to payment of compensation); if there would be no blood-guiltiness, 3 he is free (from that liability).\nR. Eliezer, 5 the son of Jacob, said further: If\nT.\n112:1 Exod. 22. 2-4.\n112:2 That is, by day.\n112:3 That is, by night. The principle here assumed is, that \"one who becomes liable to two penalties is to be condemned to the severer one\" (cf. M. IX. 9); with the corollary that \"he who commits a crime which leads to capital punishment is absolved from any payment of money compensation\" (Sanh. 73b). An illustrative case is given in B. Kama III. 10: A man who fires his neighbour's corn is liable to compensation; if he have fired it on the Sabbath he is free from the liability of paying compensation for the corn, but he is subject to the death penalty for desecrating the Sabbath.\n112:4 Ex. 22. 3.\n112:5 A contemporary of R. Eliezer b. Hyrcanus. He was considered the authority on the structural details of the Temple.","title":"Tractate Sanhedrin: IV. Offenders Liable to Capital Punishment: The Housebreaker","type":"page"}