1)

Having said "Tachas Ishech" in the previous Pasuk, why does the Kohen repeat it?

1.

Yerushalmi Sotah, 1:2: To extrapolate that, like with her husband, she was intimate willingly, so too, with the adulterer, and that consequently, in the event that he raped her, she is not a Sotah and remains permitted to her husband. 1


1

Refer also to 5:13:8:1.

2)

What is the translation of "Ki Satis" and "ve'Chii Nitmeis"?

1.

Rashi: It means 'If you strayed ... and if you sinned'. 1

2.

Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It means 'Because you strayed ... and because you sinned'


1

See Sifsei Chachamim?

3)

Why does the Torah insert the (otherwise superfluous) words "ve'Chi Nitmeis"?

1.

Seforno: "Ki Satis ... ve'Chi Nitmeis" teaches us that the curse will only take effect if she strayed and was guilty, but not for any other sin that she may have commited.

2.

Yerushalmi Sotah, 4:4: To incorporate the wife of a Saris (a eunoch) in the Din of Mei Sotah. 1

3.

Sifri: To include in the Din of Mei Sotah where the intimacy was performed she'Lo ke'Darkah (from the back).


1

See Torah Temimah, note 113;

4)

What are the implications of the words "Vayiten Ish bach es Shechavto"?

1.

Sifri: It implies any act of intimicy, even if it causes pregnancy 1 - to include where the adulterer was a Saris.


1

Se Torah Temimah, note 115.

5)

What are the implications of the term "mi'Bal'adei Ishech"?

1.

Sotah, 24b: It implies that she is only a Sotah if intimacy with her husband preceded her intimacy with the adulterer. 1


1

See Torah Temimah, note 116.

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