Jerusalem Talmud Sotah 3.8

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

MISHNAH: What is the difference between a man and a woman? A man is dishevelled and with open seams, no woman is dishevelled and with open seams. A man can make his son a nazir, no woman can make her son a nazir. A man can shave using his father’s vow of nazir, no woman can shave using her father’s vow of nazir. A man can betrothe his daughter, no woman can betrothe her daughter. A man can sell his daughter, no woman can sell her daughter. A man is stoned naked, no woman is stoned naked. A man is hanged, no woman is hanged. A man is sold for his theft, no woman is sold for her theft.

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

HALAKHAH: “What is the difference between a man and a woman? A man is dishevelled and with open seams,” etc. “A man”. This refers not only to a man; from where for a woman? The verse says, “afflicted with skin disease,” whether man, or woman, or minor. If it is so, why is “a man” written? For the next theme, “a man is dishevelled and with open seams, no woman is dishevelled and with open seams.”

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

“A man can make his son a nazir,” and “a man can shave”. Rebbi Joḥanan in the name of Rebbi Meїr: In twenty-four matters are the House of Shammai lenient while the House of Hillel are restrictive and that is one of them: The House of Shammai say, a man cannot make his son a nazir, but the House of Hillel say, a man can make his son a nazir.

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

“A man can sell his daughter,” for it is written: “If a man sell his daughter as a handmaid. “A man can betrothe his daughter,” as it is written: “I gave my daughter as a wife but he hated her.”

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

“A man is stoned naked, no woman is stoned naked.” For it is written, “you shall stone him,” not his garment. Rebbi Ḥaggai asked before Rebbi Yose: Is it not written: “You shall stone them with stones,” does that mean “them but not their garments”? How is that? A man is not greatly degraded by this, so he is stoned naked, but a woman who would be greatly degraded by it cannot be stoned naked.

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

“A man is hanged, no woman is hanged.” Because it is written, “one shall hang him”, not her.

English · Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

“A man is sold for his theft,” for his theft but not for the double restitution. For his theft but not for his perjury. For his theft he is not sold twice. There is only a monetary claim on him. That means, for one theft, but for two thefts he can be sold a second time. Rebbi Jeremiah asked: If he stole from a partnership, how are you treating this? As one theft or as two thefts? If he stole and removed [things] in the night, we would say that if the owners realized [the loss] in the meantime, there are two thefts; otherwise, it is one theft.

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Jerusalem Talmud Sotah 3.8

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