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WolfishMusings
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Do a gadol have the right to actually execute people without proper adjudication? Even on a hora’as sha’ah basis? I don’t think so.

The Wolf

Yes. Ayin Shimon Ben Shetach.

You mean the very same Shimon ben Shetach who expressed great frustration at his *inability* to execute a killer whom he knew to be guilty?

The Wolf