Are Children Punished for Parents' Sins?

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  • Four Generations of Egyptian Exile
    • Canaanites punished because no hope for repentance – R"Y Bekhor Shor
    • Canaanites punished for sins of parents – Rashbam, Ramban, Sforno
    • Israelites punished for sins of parents – Abarbanel
  • Datan and Aviram
    • Innocent adult children –
    • Guilty adult children – Ralbag, R. Reggio
    • Minors – Tanchuma, Rashi, R. Aharon b. Meshulam, R. Astruc
  • Who is killed in the עיר הנדחת?
    • Innocent adult children – Rambam Moreh Nevukhim, R. D"Z Hoffmann
    • Minors – Rambam Mishneh Torah, Ralbag
    • Only guilty adult children – Abba Chanan in Sifre Devarim, Ramah, R. Shimshon of Sens, Ramban
  • Akhan
    • Innocent adult children – simple reading
    • Minors – Radak
    • Special Divine command – Hoil Moshe
    • Guilty adult children – Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, Radak, Hoil Moshe
    • No children (only Akhan) – Bavli Sanhedrin, Rashi, Ralbag
  • Shaul's Descendants and the Givonim
    • Innocent adult children – simple reading
    • Special Divine command – Ramah, Radak
    • Adult children abetted crime – R. Saadia
    • Adult children continued parents' ways – Radak
  • Geichazi
    • Innocent adult children – simple reading
    • Guilty adult children – Radak, Hoil Moshe
  • Promise to Yehu
    • Reward – Ibn Kaspi
    • Punishment – Mekhilta DeRashbi, R"Y Bekhor Shor
  • Menashe
    • Punished for own sins – Radak
    • Not punished for own sins – Mishnat R. Eliezer 2nd possibility, R"E of Beaugency, Ibn Kaspi
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