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Perek X begins with a new Mishna. We learn that people who are strangled are those who:
· hit their father or mother
The Torah says, “he who wounds his father or mother shall be killed” (Ex. 21:15). Our sugya explains that this passuk includes any wound involving the drawing of blood with, of course, warning and witnesses. Apropos, the Gemora recounts that some Amoraim did not allow their sons to extract thorns from their flesh or burst a pimple on their bodies, lest they inadvertently transgress this prohibition.
We consider the halachot of healing.