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with regard to his daughter born from the woman he raped, which is not written explicitly in the Torah. It is forbidden for this man to have sex with this daughter, despite the fact that she is not the daughter of his wife, as he did not marry her mother.
As Rava said: R' Yitzḥak bar Avdimi said to me that this halakha is derived by means of a verbal analogy between the term they [hena], an unusual form of this word, written in one context, and the same term, they, written elsewhere. As it is written: “The nakedness of a woman and her daughter…you
Furthermore, the punishment for this transgression is derived from a verbal analogy between: “It is lewdness [zima]” (Leviticus 18:17), which is written with regard to a woman and her daughter, and the same term “lewdness” that appears elsewhere, as it is stated: “And if a man take with his wife als
§ The Mishnah taught: These [hen hen] are the essential parts of the Torah. The Talmud asks: These, the topics mentioned in the Mishnah, which are not written explicitly but for which there is ample basis in the Torah, yes, they are the essential parts of Torah, whereas those other categories lis
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