אחוותא.
were twin sisters, and became the matriarchs of families of distinguished Torah scholars.
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אחוותא.
were twin sisters, and became the matriarchs of families of distinguished Torah scholars.
ולא מיפקדי? והאמר רב אחא בר רב קטינא אמר רבי יצחק: מעשה באשה אחת שחציה שפחה וחציה בת חורין, וכפו את רבה ועשאה בת חורין! אמר רב נחמן בר יצחק: מנהג הפקר נהגו בה.
The Talmud asks: Are women not commanded to be fruitful and multiply? Didn’t Rav Aḥa bar Rav Ketina say that R' Yitzḥak said: There was an incident with a certain woman who was half-slave and half-free woman and therefore could marry neither a Canaanite slave nor a Jew, and they forced her master and he made her a free woman. Presumably, the reason the court forced her master to free her was so that she could fulfill the mitzva to be fruitful and multiply. Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: The reason they forced her master to free her was because others treated her in a loose manner. Since she knew that she could not marry she engaged in promiscuous activity, and the court forced her master to free her in order to save her and others from sin.
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