Sanhedrin 55: The Role of Shame
A challenging daf, with the breakdown of details of activity or homosexual acts, for bestial acts, and so on. The sages tackle the topics with seeming equanimity, until Rav Sheshet reacts in such a way that it opens the question whether they weren't as sanguine about it all. Also, the question of a non-Jew who engages in bestiality - does the animal need to be put to death? What about in the case of a non-Jew and idolatry regarding an animal? That animal isn't put to death (though a tree that is the object of idolatry needed to be destroyed). The shame of bestiality isn't present with regard…
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