*9.3 Makkos Daf 07 A (10 lines Dn)*

*9.3 Makkos Daf 07 A (10 lines Dn)**Summary**Mishna:*A Sanhedrin that *killed once in seven years* is called a cruel Sanhedrin _(it wasn’t actually cruel, it was called cruel because Sanhedrin always searched for loopholes. However even when Sanhedrin let someone off on a technicality, he was either killed by the king, or Sanhedrin locked him in a room and “forgot” to feed him)._ *Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah:* A Sanhedrin that *killed once in seventy years.**Rabbi Akiva* and *Rabbi Tarfon:* Had we merited being in the Sanhedrin _(while they did live before the churban, Sanhedrin had stopped judging capital cases forty years before the churban),_ *no one would ever have been killed* _(they would have fulfilled the mitzvah of finding loopholes. However the murderers would have been handled in another way as mentioned above. See also: 9.6)._ *Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel: They would have increased murderers* in Israel _(chopping off a murderer’s head is the best deterrent)._ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate