#STRask - April 8, 2021

Questions about whether stoning to death was too harsh a punishment for breaking the Sabbath in Numbers 15:32–36 and whether one can divorce a non-adulterous spouse if he has broken all of his other wedding vows.

• Isn’t stoning to death too harsh a punishment for breaking the Sabbath by gathering wood in Numbers 15:32–36?
• If I break all of my modern wedding vows to my wife but remain faithful by never committing adultery, would it be a sin for her to divorce me?