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God instructed Moses to allocate six Levitical cities as cities of refuge (Numbers 35). Moses set aside three such cities in Trans-Jordan (Deut. 4 and 19), leaving the balance to be determined later. Now, with the conquest and apportionment nearing their conclusion, Joshua completed the assignment by allocating three additional cities of refuge west of the Jordan. Detailed principles of asylum were developed in talmudic tractate Makkot (Chapter Two) and canonized by Maimonides in Mishneh Torah. I should like to cite one singular aspect of those laws here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our chapter prescribes that the unpremeditated killer \u201cshall reside (<\/span>yashav<\/span><\/em>) in that city until he stands trial\u201d (v. 6, cf. Numbers 35:25). Elsewhere, the Torah qualifies that residence as \u201cthat he might live\u201d (<\/span>vahay<\/span><\/em>; Deut. 4:42, 19:5) One of the points taken up in the Maimonidean exposition pertains to the nature of that dwelling and living. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If a disciple [of the Sages] is exiled to a city of refuge, his teacher is exiled, too. To wit: \u201cthat he might live;\u201d enable him to live, and the lives of scholars bereft of wisdom is akin to death. Likewise, if a teacher is exiled, so is his academy (Laws of Murder and the Preservation of Life, 7:1).<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine, an entire academy forced to reside in a city of refuge because their master killed someone without premeditation! None of them shares his guilt; indeed, even he, strictly speaking, is not guilty; yet they are all obliged to seek asylum in order that their collective Torah learning should not be compromised.<\/span><\/p>\n

One would be entitled to conclude from this, and similar laws, that Maimonides would support the position taken by many contemporary penologists that the principal purpose of incarceration is to provide opportunities for rehabilitation\u2014spiritual and psychological, too\u2014as it is implied in the name of the agency that oversees prisons: The Department of Corrections. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":54472,"id":54472,"title":"jo20-exit","filename":"jo20-exit.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo20-exit.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/refuge-rehabilitation\/jo20-exit\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jo20-exit","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":54453,"date":"2019-04-28 19:17:38","modified":"2019-04-28 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