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# criminality

«criminality» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The state of being guilty of crimes or wrongdoing** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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.

### 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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/criminality/#x2)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «criminality» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/criminality/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.