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Sifrei on DeuteronomySifrei Devarim 238

Sifrei on Deuteronomy

Sifrei Devarim 238

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Devarim 22:18) "Then the elders of the city shall take the man and chastise him.": "the man": and not a minor.

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"and chastise him": with stripes.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Ibid. 19) "And they shall punish him": with money (i.e., they shall fine him)

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"a hundred silver": Tyrian shekels.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"and they shall give it to the father of the na'arah (a maiden, from twelve to twelve and a half), and not to the father of the bogereth (a mature maid, after twelve and a half).

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"and they shall give it to the father of the na'arah": and not to the father of a convert, whose conception was not in holiness and whose birth was in holiness, (there being no "fatherhood" to a gentile). She does not receive the hundred shekels.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"for he has given out an evil name about a virgin of Israel": He has given out an evil name not only about her alone, but about all the virgins of Israel.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"and to him shall she be as a wife." We are hereby taught that he must "quaff his bitter cup" — even if she be lame or blind or covered with boils. If there were in her a thing of zimah (obscenity) or if she were not fit to marry into Israel, I might think that he were permitted to keep her as a wife; it is, therefore, written "and to him shall she be as a wife" — (connoting) a woman who is (halachically) fit for him (as a wife).

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"He shall not be able to send her away all of his days": even after a long passage of time.

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