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Judaism is a religious system, and thus approaches questions about the meaning of life for people with mental retardation from a religious perspective. Even in the oldest sources (Mishna, Oral Studies, 200 CE; Talmud, about 500 CE), people with mental retardation were relieved from all accountability in a civil judicial sense, and, in a religious sense, exempted from having to follow the religious commandments and prohibitions of the Torah (Bible).
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B.T. Megilla 19b.
B.T. Kiddushin 29a.
The Bible, Deuteronomy 11:19.
Kiddushin nr. 27.
Shuchan Aruch Joré Dé’a 145:4.
B.T. Bava Batra 21a.
B.T. Bava Batra 21a.
See the Jewish Codex Shuchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 163:3.
For some reading concerning Halachah, cf. T. Marx, Halachah and Handicap: Jewish Law and Ethics on Disability. Jerusalem/ Amsterdam: 1992–3.
J. Hes and S. Wollstein, “The Attitude of the Ancient Jewish Sources to Mental Patients.” Israel Annals of Psychiatry and Related Disciplines, vol. 2 (1964), pp. 103–16.
B.T. Bava Kama 78a.
Mystic studies, 2:16.
Deuteronomy 8:3.
B.T. Bava Kama 87a.
Rosh Hashana 3:8.
B.T. Jewamot 112b.
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Evers, R. (2000). Meaning of Life and Meaning of Care. In: Stolk, J., Boer, T.A., Seldenrijk, R. (eds) Meaningful Care. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9516-2_3
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