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Sifrei on DeuteronomySifrei Devarim 196

Sifrei on Deuteronomy

Sifrei Devarim 196

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Devarim 20:7) "And who is the man who has betrothed a woman": whether he has betrothed a virgin or a widow, even one awaiting levirate marriage, and even if he has heard that his brother died in the war, he returns.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"and he has not taken her": (Scripture speaks of) a woman who is (halachically) fit for him — to exclude his divorcée (who had remarried), a widow betrothed to a high-priest, a divorcée or a chalutzah (a woman awaiting levirate marriage), betrothed to any Cohein, a mamzereth (a bastard, the issue of an illicit relationship) or a nathinah (a descendant of the Giveonites) betrothed to an Israelite, or an Israelitess betrothed to a nathin or a mamzer.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"let him go and return to his house": Let him heed the words of the Cohein and return. All of them (the returnees) heed the words of the Cohein at the battle formation and return and supply water and food for their brothers and repair the roads. Why were all these things stated? So that the cities of Israel not lie waste.

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