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It is preferable for a person to have sex with a woman whose married status is uncertain and not humiliate another in public. The Talmud asks: From where do we derive this? The Talmud answers: It is from that which Rava interpreted, as Rava interpreted: What is the meaning of that which is written:
And moreover, they torment me to the extent that even at the time when they are engaged in the public study of the halakhot of leprous sores and tents in which there is a corpse, i.e., halakhic matters that have no connection to my sin, they say to me: David, one who has sex with a married woman, h
And Mar Zutra bar Toviyya says that Rav says; and some say Rav Ḥana bar Bizna says that R' Shimon Ḥasida says; and some say R' Yoḥanan says in the name of R' Shimon ben Yoḥai: It is more comfortable for a person to cast himself into a fiery furnace, than to humiliate another in public to avoid bein
§ Rav Ḥinnana, son of Rav Idi, says: What is the meaning of that which is written: “And you shall not mistreat each man his colleague [amito]” (Leviticus 25:17)? The word amito is interpreted as a contraction of im ito, meaning: One who is with him. With one who is with you in observance of Torah an
R' Elazar says: Since the day the Temple was destroyed the gates of prayer were locked, and prayer is not accepted as it once was, as it is stated in lament of the Temple’s destruction: “Though I plead and call out, He shuts out my prayer” (Lamentations 3:8). Yet, despite the fact that the gates of