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What halakha can be derived from the seemingly superfluous second letter lamed, which renders the expression: “You shall not curse [tekallel]”? Conclude from it that this expression includes two prohibitions: A prohibition against cursing God and a prohibition against cursing a judge.
Mishnah: One who has sex with a betrothed young woman is not liable to be executed by stoning unless she is a young woman, i.e., neither a minor nor an adult; a virgin; betrothed but not yet married; and she lives in her father’s home, having yet to move in with her husband. If two men had sex wi
Talmud: A baraita states with regard to the conditions stated in the Mishnah: The punishment of stoning applies only if the woman is a young woman, a category that applies until she is approximately 12-and-a-half years of age, but not a grown woman. She must be a virgin but not a non-virgin. She
Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: This Mishnah is the statement of R' Meir, who holds that the halakha of a betrothed young woman applies to a young woman of the intermediate age between minority and adulthood. But the Rabbis say: Even a minor is included in the term: A betrothed young woman; only a
Rav Aḥa of Difti said to Ravina: From where is it indicated that the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, and the specification that she must be a young woman is not only to the exclusion of a grown woman but also to the exclusion of a minor girl? Perhaps the Mishnah is in accordanc