Pesachim 112B

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not all fingers are equal. It is possible that intimate sex with her second husband might not be as pleasing as with the first, leading her to disparage and even hate him.

R' Akiva continued to offer instruction: It is a mitzva and a great material benefit to one’s body to eat fruits without payment. That is, when one lends money and takes land as collateral, deducting from the loan the value of the fruit he eats, both the borrower and the lender benefit from this pr

The Talmud cites more instructions issued by a Sage to his heirs. Our holy rabbi, R' Yehuda HaNasi, commanded his sons to do 4 matters: Do not live in Shekhantziv in Babylonia, because they are mockers. And they will draw you in to their mockery and lead you to abandon your Torah studies.

R' Yehuda HaNasi further commanded his sons: Do not sit on the bed of an Aramean woman. This advice is explained in different ways. Some say it means that you should not go to sleep without reciting Shema, as a Jew who does this acts like a non-Jew. And some say it means that you should not marry

And some say that R' Yehuda HaNasi meant the actual bed of an Aramean woman, and this is due to the concern for a similar outcome to the later incident involving Rav Pappa. The incident in question was as follows: Rav Pappa entered the house of a non-Jew woman to collect a debt. The woman asked him