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This can be explained as: “If you shall afflict my daughters” by refraining from sex, “and if you shall take other wives” causing them to suffer from additional rival wives. The Talmud objects: And say that this phrase and that phrase are both referring to taking rival wives. The Talmud rejects this
The Talmud challenges further: And say that this phrase and that phrase are referring to taking rival wives. One phrase is referring to his wives’ current rivals. “If you shall afflict” means that Jacob should not elevate the position of the two female slaves, Bilhah and Zilpah, to the status of wi
Rav Pappa said to Abaye: But sex themselves are called affliction, as it is written: “And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and he lay with her and afflicted her” (Genesis 34:2). If so, how can it be said that the affliction is in withholding sex
§ The Talmud clarifies some of the prohibitions relating to Yom Kippur. A baraita states: It is prohibited to bathe part of the body just as it is prohibited to bathe the whole body. But if one is dirty from mud or excrement, he may bathe in his usual manner, and he need not be concerned about trans
The school of Menashe taught that Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: A woman may rinse one hand in water, so that she does not touch food before she has washed her hands in the morning, and give bread to her child, and she need not be concerned about violating the prohibition of bathing on Yom Kippur.