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B it is day number 328 of our daily
study of RA mitz and in the three
chapters of day study track of mish we
are finishing helus laws of testimony
with chapters 20 21 and 22 we mentioned
yesterday when we learned the
prohibition against bearing false
testimony that there are two kinds of
false Witnesses in Toyota and I said
that we would get into that today so
here we are positive commandment 180 is
the positive commandment to punish
conspiring Witnesses
a and the way that they are punished is
a very specific punishment it's
described
in Deuteronomy 19:19 where it says you
should do to him to this conspiring
witness the way he can conspired or
plotted to do to his brother in other
words you do to him what he would have
had done to the person that he's
plotting against which means if he tried
to make this other person lose money so
he loses that money if he tried to get
this person killed so he gets killed if
I I'm saying he the truth is it's they
because it's a minimum two witnesses if
these a z these conspiring Witnesses
tried to get somebody to to be lashed
and then they get lashed okay now what
are these conspiring Witnesses how is an
a zim different than an a Shaker okay so
how do we establish anything based on uh
Witnesses so let's say the first two
witnesses come in and they testify that
they saw
somebody I don't know let's say uh he
owes money he we saw him take a Lo from
somebody else
okay so if another pair of witnesses
come in and say well that's not true
that can't be true because this person
you're saying took
aone he was with us he couldn't have
been there so you're you're the
substance of what you're saying has been
proven to be untrue okay or let's say
it's a criminal thing they say they saw
somebody kill somebody and then two
other Witnesses come and say well that's
not true because the guy that you're
saying is the perpetrator he was with us
he he wasn't there that's not possible
okay that's called a false
witness Adam Z conspiring or plotting
scheming witness is totally
different that's when the second group
of witnesses come in and say listen the
thing you're saying that so and so took
a loan from so and so or that so and so
uh murdered so and so we don't know if
that's true or not true it may be true
but what we do know is you're not the
ones who could possibly know it because
IM you were with
us follow the difference the second pair
of witnesses is not coming to dispute
the substance of the original testimony
they're just coming to say you're not
the one who would know that because
we've displaced you from the scene of
the crime or the scene of the business
transaction or whatever we can testify
you were not in that place so what
you're saying may have happened may not
have happened we have no opinion about
that what we know is you're not the ones
who saw it okay that's called a
conspiring witness and in that very
specific situation the punishment is you
do to them exactly what they conspired
to have done to the person against whom
they were testifying that's mitvah and
we finished we'll start a new section
of tomorrow we'll see you then God
willing
