Sanhedrin 66B

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מאי ״לא תקלל״? שמע מינה תרתי.

What halakha can be derived from the seemingly superfluous second letter lamed, which renders the expression: “You should not curse [tekallel]”? Conclude from it that this expression includes two prohibitions: A prohibition against cursing God and a prohibition against cursing a judge.

מתני׳ הבא על נערה המאורסה אינו חייב, עד שתהא נערה, בתולה, מאורסה, והיא בבית אביה. באו עליה שנים, הראשון בסקילה והשני בחנק.

Mishnah: One who has sex with a betrothed young woman is not liable to be executed by stoning unless she is a young woman, i.e., neither a minor nor an adult; a virgin; betrothed but not yet married; and she lives in her father’s home, having yet to move in with her husband. If two men had sex with her, the first is liable to be executed by stoning, and the second is liable to be executed by strangulation. The second man is executed in this manner in accordance with the halakha of one who has sex with a married or non-virgin betrothed woman, as she was no longer a virgin when he had sex with her.

גמ׳ תנו רבנן: ״נערה״⁠ – ולא בוגרת, ״בתולה״⁠ – ולא בעולה, ״מאורסה״⁠ – ולא נשואה, ״בבית אביה״⁠ – פרט לשמסר האב לשלוחי הבעל.

Talmud: A baraita states with regard to the conditions stated in the Mishnah: The punishment of stoning applies only if the woman is a young woman, a category that applies until she is approximately 12-and-a-half years of age, but not a grown woman. She must be a virgin but not a non-virgin. She must be betrothed but not married. She must be living in her father’s home, excluding a case where the father transferred his daughter to the husband’s agents to bring her to her husband’s home for the purpose of marriage; in such a case, even though she has not arrived there yet, she is already considered a married woman according to halakha.

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