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According to the Mishna on our daf, one of the biblical prohibitions that would lead to the punishment of sekilah – death by stoning – is bestiality.
Thus, sexual relations by a man or a woman with an animal is forbidden by the Torah, and such an act is punishable by death – for both the person and the animal that was involved
We explore the tortuous subject of homosexuality in Halacha and modernity.