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לא פגעו בו קנאין, מהו? אינשייה רב לגמריה. אקריוה לרב כהנא בחלמיה: ״בגדה יהודה ותועבה נעשתה בישראל ובירושלים כי חלל יהודה קדש ה׳ אשר אהב ובעל בת אל נכר״. אתא אמר ליה: הכי אקריון.
If zealots did not strike him, what is the halakha? Rav forgot that which he learned through tradition concerning this matter. They read this verse to Rav Kahana in his dream: “Judah has dealt treacherously and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, as Judah has profaned the sacred of YHWH, which he loves, and has had sex with the daughter of a strange god” (Malachi 2:11). Rav Kahana came and said to Rav: This is what they read to me in my dream.
אדכריה רב לגמריה. ״בגדה יהודה״ – זו עבודה זרה, וכן הוא אומר: ״כן בגדתם בי בית ישראל נאם ה׳״. ״ותועבה נעשתה בישראל ובירושלים״ – זה משכב זכור, וכן הוא אומר: ״ואת זכר לא תשכב משכבי אשה תועבה היא״. ״כי חלל יהודה קדש ה׳״ – זו זונה, וכן הוא אומר: ״לא תהיה קדשה מבנות ישראל״. ״ובעל בת אל נכר״ – זה הבא על הגויה.
Rav then remembered that which he learned through tradition and said: “Judah has dealt treacherously,” this is a reference to the sin of idol worship. And likewise it says: But as a wife who treacherously departs her husband, you have dealt treacherously with Me, house of Israel, says YHWH (Jeremiah 3:20). “And an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem,” this is a reference to male homosexual sex, and likewise it says: “You should not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22). “As Judah has profaned the sacred [kodesh] of YHWH,” this is a reference to a prostitute, and likewise it says: “There should be no prostitute [kedesha] of the daughters of Israel” (Deuteronomy 23:18). “And has had sex with the daughter of a strange god,” this is a reference to one who has sex with a non-Jew woman.
וכתיב בתריה: ״יכרת ה׳ לאיש אשר יעשנה ער וענה מאהלי יעקב ומגיש מנחה לה׳ צבאות״. אם תלמיד חכם הוא – לא יהיה לו ער בחכמים ועונה בתלמידים. אם כהן הוא – לא יהיה לו בן מגיש מנחה לה׳ צבאות.
And it is written after that with regard to those enumerated in the verse: “May YHWH excise the man who does this, who calls and who answers from the tents of Jacob, and he who sacrifices a meal-offering to YHWH of hosts” (Malachi 2:12). The Talmud interprets the verse: If he is a Torah scholar, he will have neither one among his descendants who calls and initiates discourse among the rabbis, nor one who answers among the students, i.e., one who is capable of answering questions posed by the rabbis. If he is a priest, he will not have among his descendants a son who sacrifices a meal-offering to YHWH of hosts.