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and may not enter into levirate marriage. This indicates that the levirate bond does apply to a sota, which contradicts Rav’s statement. The Talmud retorts that Rav could have said to you: I spoke to you about a sota whose infidelity was definite, and you speak to me of an uncertain sota. There is
But with regard to an uncertain sota, who was alone with a specific man enough time to engage in sex, defilement is written as well. As it is taught in a baraita: R' Yosei ben Keifar said in the name of R' Elazar: With regard to one who remarries his divorcée after she had been married to another
And the Rabbis say: Both this one and that one, i.e., whether she had been fully married or merely betrothed to another, she is forbidden to her first husband. Rather, how do I establish the phrase: “After she was defiled”? This verse does not refer at all to the case of a woman who married anoth
The Talmud rejects this argument: And what does: Secluded herself, mean in this context? It means that she had actually engaged in sex. And why does the baraita call this: Secluded herself, instead of the more straightforward: had sex? The baraita employed a euphemistic expression, but it actuall
The Talmud explains that “may not take her again to be his wife after she was defiled” does not teach that she is called “defiled,” but rather that the halakha establishes upon her a prohibition. In other words, if the husband engages in sex with his wife after she had had sex with another, he tran