If, before [the writing on] the scroll had been blotted out, she said `I refuse to drink`, Her scroll is stored away and her meal-offering is scattered over the Ashes. Her scroll is not valid to be used in giving another suspected woman to drink. If [the writing on] the scroll has been blotted out and she said `I am unclean`, the water is poured away and her meal-offering is scattered in the place of the Ashes. If [the writing on] the scroll had been blotted out and she said `I refuse to drink`, they exert influence upon her and make her drink by force. |
סוטה 3.3 |
She had scarcely finished drinking when her face turns green, Her eyes protrude and her veins swell; and it is exclaimed, remove her that the Temple-court be not defiled`. If she possessed a merit, it [causes the water] to suspend its effect upon her. Some merit suspends the effect for one year, another for two years, and another for three years. Hence declared Ben Azzai, a man is under the obligation to teach his daughter Torah, so that if she has to drink [the water of bitterness], she may know that the merit suspends its effect. R. Eliezer says: whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her obscenity. R. Joshua says: a woman prefers one Kab and sexual indulgence to nine Kab and continence. He used to say, a foolish pietist, a cunning rogue, a female pharisee, and the plague of Pharisees bring destruction upon the world. |
סוטה 3.4 |
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