THE CABALA OF DETERRENCE

The Committee of Deterrence and the Death Penalty concluded that studies on the death penalty and its potential effect on homicide rates – both pro and con – contain fundamental flaws that essentially make them moot.

Transgressing many of the 613 Commandments detailed in the Torah are punishable by death and yet the Jewish courts during the time of the Temple, the only time capital punishment was dealt out, rarely administered the death penalty even against blatant murderers.

If more than one person was put the death in seventy years, the courts were considered murderers. The death penalty was not used as a deterrent but as a way to redeem the soul in very infrequent circumstances. The judges were expected to find a loophole to save lives.

The Cabala explains, Deliberate actions with sufficient warning able to blemish God’s Four Letter Name YHVH, could only be rectified through the death penalty, but all other offenses had lesser punishments – God, the true judge would execute the guilty at the proper time.

Though the death penalty is mentioned numerous times throughout the Torah, compassion takes precedence; the Creator of life prefers repentance over death. The US is one of the 42 countries in the world who still retains this brutal practice for deterrent and revenge.