Study Sotah folio 21B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
§ The Mishnah states: From here ben Azzai states: A person is obligated to teach his daughter Torah, so that if she drinks and does not die immediately, she will know that some merit of hers has delayed her punishment. R' Eliezer says: Anyone who teaches his daughter Torah is teaching her promiscuit
R' Abbahu says: What is the reason for R' Eliezer’s statement? It is as it is written: “I, wisdom, dwell with cunning” (Proverbs 8:12), which indicates that once wisdom enters into a person, cunning enters with it. R' Eliezer fears that the woman will use the cunning she achieves by learning the wi
The Talmud asks: And the Rabbis who disagree with him, what do they do with this verse: “I, wisdom, dwell with cunning [orma]”; how do they interpret it? The Talmud responds: He requires that verse for that which R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, states, interpreting the word “orma” as nakedness rather t
§ The Mishnah states that R' Yehoshua says: A woman desires to receive the amount of a kav of food and a sexual relationship rather than to receive 9 kav of food and abstinence. The Talmud asks: What is he saying? This is what R' Yehoshua is saying: A woman desires to receive the amount of a kav of
§ The Mishnah continues: He, R' Yehoshua, would say: A foolish man of piety, and a conniving wicked person, and an abstinent woman, and those who injure themselves out of false abstinence; all these are people who erode the world. The Talmud asks: Who is considered a foolish man of piety? For exam