Today's Mishnah Yomi
Sotah 4:3 - 4:4
The Mishnah Yomi for Saturday, May 18, 2024 is Sotah 4:3 - 4:4
Mishnah 1
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סוטה פרק ד׳ משנה ג׳
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מעוברת חבירו. שמת או גרשה והניחה מעוברת או מניקה. ואסרוה חכמים לינשא עד שיהיה הולד בן שתי שנים. והלך זה ונשאה קודם הזמן, וקינא לה ונסתרה:
לא שותה. שהרי אינה ראויה לקיימה, דס״ל לר״מ הנושא מעוברת חבירו או מינקת חבירו יוציא ולא יחזיר עולמית. ואין הלבה כרבי מאיר:
יכול הוא להפרישה. עד כ״ד חדשים ולהחזירה, הלכך ראויה לאישות קרינא בה:
איילונית. דוכרניתא דלא ילדה:
ושאינה ראויה לילד. ששתתה כוס עקרין. ואסור לקיימן למי שאין לו בנים:
ר״א אומר יכול הוא לישא אשה אחרת. ויהיה מותר לקיים את זאת, הלכך ראויה לאישות היא. ואין הלכה כר׳ אליעזר:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Sotah Perek 4 Mishnah 4
סוטה פרק ד׳ משנה ד׳
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אשת כהן שותה ומותרת לבעלה – if she is found innocent, for you might have thought for since she is the wife of a Koehn that was forced [to have sexual intercourse with another man], she is forbidden to her husband, let us fear lest she was forced to have sexual intercourse [with another man] and therefore, the [bitter] waters did not examine her, this comes to teach us that this is not the case.
אשת סריס – that you should not say that apart from “your wife” (Numbers 5:19), the All-Merciful said. But this one is not son of that one. This is what it comes to tell us.
על ידי כל העריות מקנאים – if he was jealous of her from her father or from her brother, or from one of all of the prohibited relationships and she had retired under suspicious circumstances, it is a manifestation of warning and she is prohibited to him and she drinks [the waters of bitterness]. So that she will not state that “she was defiled,” “she was defiled,” twice – the first [time] to her husband and the [second] to the one who had engaged in intercourse with her, for where he is forbidden to her with this act of prostitution excluding that where is he is prohibited to her and we establish [stating not], this is what it comes to tell us [that this is not the case].
חוץ מן הקטן – younger than nine years of age and one day where Maimonides explained that his coition is not coition. But to me, it appears that a minor child younger than age thirteen and one day who had not brought signs of puberty, as it is written (Numbers 5:13): “in that a man has had carnal relations with her,” a man, but not a minor child.
ממי שאינו איש – excluding an animal.
אשת כהן שותה ומותרת לבעלה. אם נמצאת נקיה. דמהו דתימא הואיל ואשת כהן שנאנסה אסורה לבעלה, ניחוש לה שמא נאנסה ולכך לא בדקוה המים, קמ״ל:
אשת סריס שותה. דלא תימא מבלעדי אישך אמר רחמנא, והאי לאו בר הכי הוא, קמ״ל:
על ידי כל העריות מקנאים. אם קינא לה מאביה או מאחיה ומאחד מבל עריות, ונסתרה, הוי קינוי ונאסרת עליו ושותה. דלא תימא נטמאה נטמאה ב׳ פעמים, אחד לבעל ואחד לבועל, היכא דמתסרא עליה בהאי זנות, לאפוקי הא דאסירא עליה וקיימא אימא לא קא משמע לן:
חוץ מן הקטן. פחות מבן ט׳ שנים ויום אחד, שאין ביאתו ביאה, כך פירש רמב״ם. ולי נראה קטן פחות מבן י״ג שנה ויום א׳ ולא הביא סימנים, דכתיב (במדבר ה׳:י״ג) ושכב איש אותה, איש ולא קטן:
וממי שאינו איש. למעוטי בהמה:
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Mishnah Yomi is a daily study program where participants study two mishnayot (individual teachings from the Mishnah) every day. By following this program, one can complete the entire Mishnah in about six years.
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In 1934, the Kozoglover Gaon, Rav Aryeh Tzvi Frommer, who took over from Rav Meir Shapiro (the founder of Daf Yomi) as the head of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, initiated the Mishnah Yomi cycle, focusing on Seder Zeraim and Seder Taharos. After World War II, in 1947, Rav Yonah Sztencl, a disciple of Rav Frommer, expanded the program, advocating for a comprehensive study of Shishah Sidrei Mishnah. The idea of studying two Mishnayos daily gained the support of figures like Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, the Tchebiner Rov, and the Gerer Rebbe, marking the formal inception of Mishnah Yomi.
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מעוברת חבירו – who died or divorced her and left her pregnant or nursing and the Sages forbid her to marry until the child born would be two years old and he went and married her prior to that time and was jealous of her and she had retired under suspicious circumstances.
לא שותה – for she is not appropriate to fulfill it for Rabbi Meir holds ha a person who marries a woman who was impregnated by another or who had her become a nursing mother from another should divorce her and never ever return her. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.
יכול הוא להפרישה – until twenty-four months [have passed] and then to retore her. Therefore, we can her worthy of marriage.
אילונית – she is man-like and does not give birth (i.e., barren, incapable of conception – see Talmud Ketubot 11a for its etymology from "איל"–ram-like).
ושאינה ראויה לילד – for she had drank that cup of impotence–sterility, and it is prohibited to establish them for one who has not children.
ר"א אומר יכול הוא לישא אשה אחרת – and he will be permitted to uphold this one. Therefore, she is appropriate for marriage. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.