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except for the ink used to write the Torah passage about the sota, even when written in a Torah scroll. R' Ya’akov says in the name of R' Meir: It is except for the ink used to write the scroll with the sota passage used in the Temple. The Talmud asks: What is the difference between these two opin
The Talmud assumes that according to R' Ya’akov it is prohibited to erase the passage from a Torah scroll, since he holds that the scroll must be written for the sake of the sota, whereas R' Yehuda, who permits this, holds that the scroll need not be written for the sake of the sota. And therefore,
Rav Pappa said: Perhaps that is not so, and the two disputes are not comparable. It is possible that the first tanna of the baraita states that the scroll may not be used for another sota only there, in the case if a scroll written for a specific woman; since it was originally designated in the na
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said that the comparison between the two disputes can be refuted for a different reason: Perhaps that is not so. It is possible that R' Aḥai bar Yoshiya states that the scroll may be used for another sota only there, with regard to the scroll written for a specific sota, as i
The Talmud asks: And doesn’t R' Aḥai bar Yoshiya hold in accordance with that which is taught in a Mishnah (Gittin 24a): With regard to one who wrote a bill of divorce with which to divorce his wife but later reconsidered and did not divorce her, if a resident of his city found him and said to him: