Judaism holds that no human being is Human beings are not perfect, and all people have sinned many times. However a state of sin does not condemn a person to damnation; there is always do commit transgressions, so the Law-Giver offers a road of ''[[teshuva]]'' (repentance, literally: "return"). But, warn the effect of repentance depends on the severity of the transgression and the the Rabbiswarn that for some persons, there are some classes of person for whom this is exceedingly difficult, such as the one who slanders another.
In earlier days, when Jews had a functioning court system (the [[beth din]] and the [[Sanhedrin]] high court), courts were empowered to administer physical punishments for various violations, upon conviction by far stricter standards of evidence than are acceptable in American courts: [[corporal punishment (Judaism)|corporal punishment]], [[incarceration]], [[excommunication]]. Since the fall of the Temple, executions have been forbiddenare not applied. Since the fall of the autonomous Jewish communities of [[Europe]], the other punishments , such as lashes, have also fallen by the wayside. Today, then, one's accounts are reckoned solely by [[God]].
