פרק ד משנה ח | |
המוציא את אשתו |
One who divorces his wife |
משום אילונית |
because he believes her to be barren |
רבי יהודה אומר |
Rabbi Yehuda says |
לא יחזיר |
he may not remarry her |
וחכמים אומרים |
and the Sages say |
יחזיר |
he may remarry her. |
נשאת לאחר |
If she marries another |
והיו לה בנים |
and has children (thus showing that she is not barren) |
והיא תובעת כתובתה |
and she now demands her kesuba (which was previously denied to her on the basis of her having been barren) |
אמר רבי יהודה |
Rabbi Yehuda says |
אומרים לה |
we say to her |
שתיקותיך |
your silence |
יפה ליך מדיבוריך |
is better than your words (as this argument may lead to the divorce being voided as it was based on her ex-husband's erroneous assumption that he would not have to pay the kesuba). |
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פרק ד משנה ט | |
המוכר את עצמו |
One who [on multiple occassions] sells himself |
ואת בניו |
and his children |
לגוי |
to a gentile |
אין פודין אותו |
we do not redeem him |
אבל פודין את הבנים |
but we do redeem his children |
לאחר מיתת אביהן |
after the death of their father (to prevent their assimilating). |
המוכר שדהו לגוי |
One who sells his field to a gentile |
לוקח ומביא ממנו |
must purchase and bring from it |
ביכורים |
bikkurim |
מפני תקון העולם |
for the public good (i.e. to discourage selling the land of Eretz Yisroel to non-Jews). |
NOTES
משנה ח
רבי יהודה אומר לא יחזיר - He forecloses any possibility of remarriage so that, if she were to remarry and have children, we don't want the first husband to claim that the divorce was void as being based on a mistake, thus aspersing her children's legitimacy.
משנה ט
There is an alternate גירסא for the second part of this משנה that reads as follows:
המוכר שדהו לגוי |
One who sells his field to a gentile |
וחזר ולקחה ממנו ישראל |
and a Jew buys it back from him |
הלוקח מביא ממנו ביכורים |
the purchaser must bring bikkurim from it (even on the fruit that had ripened while under the ownership of the non-Jew |
מפני תקון העולם |
for the public good (by showing that the land retains its kedusha even while in the posession of non-Jews we hope to encourage Jews to buy it back). |