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# criminality

noun

«criminality» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

In Sefer Yetzirah it means guilt or wrongdoing, set against merit on a scale.

**Interpretation.** The text pictures the three mother letters as a balance with merit on one side, guilt on the other and the tongue between them. Tradition reads this as a person's power to choose between good and wrong.

### Meaning

The state of being guilty of crimes or wrongdoing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/criminality/#m1)

### Examples

- In one scale \[17\] is the merit and in the other criminality, which are placed in equilibrium by the tongue. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/criminality/#x1)
- The three first elements, א״מ״ש are typified by a balance, in one scale the merit and in the other the criminality, which are placed in equilibrium by the tongue. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/criminality/#x2)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «criminality» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/criminality/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«criminality» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/criminality.html) on Mova free.