Who does adultery?
Radak: The king with the officers, and the entire nation accede.
What is the meaning of "[Kemo Sanur] Bo'erah me'Ofeh"?
Rashi: The baker ignited it. So their Yetzer ha'Ra burns inside them.
Radak: The heat of adultery is compared to the heat of fire. They are like a lit oven that the baker ignited it to bake bread in it. The Hei in Bo'erah is extra, for Sanur is masculine; therefore, the accent is on the penultimate syllable.
Malbim: The Yetzer ha'Ra for Zenus is compared to a flame that fires an oven, for so the desire for Bi'ah burns.
Why does it say "Yishbos me'Ir"?
Targum Yonasan: They will be exiled quickly from their cities 1 .
Rashi: The Yetzer ha'Ra that aroused them, it will cease.
Radak: The oven is hottest when the baker ceases to arouse the women who bake their bread in it. They burn with adultery like the oven at this (hottest) time. Me'Ir is like me'Ha'ir.
Refer to 7:4:4:3.
Malbim: The baker fires the oven the entire night. If he dozes there is someone to wake him, lest the oven cool off.
Rashi: I cannot resolve this with the verse.
What do we learn from "mi'Lush Batzek Ad Chumtzaso"?
Rashi: From when he thought their evil in his heart, how to do it, he rests and sleeps until morning, when he can do it, just like a baker rests after kneading a dough, until it ferments and he can bake it. This is like "Hoy Choshevei Aven u'Fo'alei Ra Al Mishkevosam b'Or ha'Boker Ya'asuha" (Michah 2:1).
Radak: Women cease baking in the oven from when they knead the dough, until it ferments. When the baker puts wood in the oven to ignite it, he commands the women to knead. He ceases to arouse them until it ferments. He estimates the time in his heart. Then he arouses them to come with their doughs to bake them.
Radak citing his father: The Yetzer that arouses them ? if it ceases, it is not a long time, only "mi'Lush Batzek Ad Chumtzaso 1 ". Chumtzaso is Makor (like a gerund); its grammatical form is like "Lechamlah Alayich" (Yechezkel 16:5). Or, it is a noun; its grammatical form is like Tum'ah.
Malbim: The baker sleeps only after kneading a new dough, until it ferments. Until then, the arouser will not wake him. I.e. the power of desire constantly arouses a person; it ceases only a short time, after Zenus, until it is aroused again.
The time for dough to ferment, i.e. 18 minutes. (PF)
