Rabbi Yehudah Remembered

Sifrei Devarim 235:1

Curated by Arthur·Told by Maggid·March 24, 2026

"wherewith you cover yourself": to exclude a duster, which does not cover his head and most of his body.

(Devarim 22:13) "If a man take a wife, and he come upon her, and he hate her": R. Yehudah says: If he cohabits with her, he receives stripes (for libeling her [viz. Devarim 22:14]); if not, he does not receive stripes.

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