Sanhedrin 70A

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שהכל מצויין אצלה בעבירה, אלא גזירת הכתוב היא: ״בן״, ולא בת.

The reason is that all are found frequently with her in sin, and in the end she will be a sinner and cause others to sin. But it is a Torah edict that the penalty for rebelliousness is imposed only upon a son, and not upon a daughter.

מתני׳ מאימתי חייב? משיאכל תרטימר בשר, וישתה חצי לוג יין האיטלקי. רבי יוסי אומר: מנה בשר, ולוג יין.

Mishnah: From when is a stubborn and rebellious son liable? From when he eats a tarteimar of meat and drinks a half-log of Italian wine. R' Yosei says: From when he eats a maneh of meat and drinks a log of wine.

אכל בחבורת מצוה, אכל בעיבור החדש, אכל מעשר שני בירושלים, אכל נבילות וטריפות שקצים ורמשים (אכל טבל ומעשר ראשון שלא נטלה תרומתו ומעשר שני והקדש שלא נפדו).

The Mishnah now lists a series of conditions concerning his eating and drinking. If he ate these items with a group assembled for the performance of a mitzva, or he ate them at a meal celebrating the intercalation of a month, or he ate the items when they had second tithe status, in Jerusalem, he does not become a stubborn and rebellious son because each of these circumstances involves some aspect of a mitzva. If he ate the meat of unslaughtered animal carcasses or animals that had wounds that would have caused them to die within 12 months [tereifot] or repugnant creatures or creeping animals, or he ate untithed produce from which tithes and terumot were not separated, or first tithe from which its teruma was not separated, or second tithe outside Jerusalem or consecrated food that was not redeemed, each of which involves a transgression, he does not become a stubborn and rebellious son.

אכל דבר שהוא מצוה, ודבר שהוא עבירה, אכל כל מאכל ולא אכל בשר, שתה כל משקה ולא שתה יין ⁠– אינו נעשה בן סורר ומורה עד שיאכל בשר וישתה יין, שנאמר: ״זולל וסבא״. ואף על פי שאין ראיה לדבר, זכר לדבר שנאמר: ״אל תהי בסבאי יין בזללי בשר למו״.

The Mishnah summarizes: If he ate an item that involves performing a mitzva or an item that involves committing a transgression, or if he ate any food in the world but did not eat meat, or if he drank any beverage but did not drink wine, he does not become a stubborn and rebellious son, unless he actually eats meat and actually drinks wine, as it is stated: “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not listen to our voice; he…is a glutton [zolel] and a drunkard [vesovei]” (Deuteronomy 21:20). One is not called a glutton and a drunkard unless he eats meat and drinks wine. And although there is no explicit proof to the matter that the reference in the Torah is to meat and wine, there is an allusion to the matter in another verse, as it is stated: “Be not among wine drinkers [besovei], among gluttonous eaters [bezolelei] of meat” (Proverbs 23:20).

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