1)

What are the connotations of "Lo Yikach Ish es Eishes Aviv "?

1.

Rashi: It means that Kidushin with one's father's wife are not effective. 1

2.

Targum Yonasan: It is a prohibition against having relations even with the woman that one's father raped or enticed. 2


1

See Torah Temimah, note 1.

2

This is how R. Yehudah explains the end of the Pasuk (K'naf Aviv - Refer to 23:1:2:3). See Na'ar Yonasan.

2)

What is the meaning of "Lo Yegaleh K'naf Aviv"?

1.

Rashi (like the Rabanan inYevamos 97a): It is a prohibition against being intimate with one's father's Shomeres Yavam 1 (after the death of his [father's] brother).

2.

Ramban (in Ki Savo, 27:20): It means that one may not be intimate with the woman over whom his father spread a garment - married. 2

3.

Yevamos 97a (according to R. Yehudah) and Targum Yonasan: It is a prohibition against being intimate with a woman whom one's father raped or enticed. 3


1

See Oznayim la'Torah as to why the Torah uses the expression of "K'naf Aviv" with regard to a Shomeres Yavam.

2

Refer to 27: 2.

3

See Peirush Yonasan.

3)

Having already taught the Isur of Eishes Aviv in Vayikra 18:8, why does the Torah need to repeat it here?

1.

Rashbam: To teach us - by virtue of its juxtaposition to "Lo Yavo Mamzer ... " - that, if one does marry her, the child born to them is a Mamzer, 1 who is forbidden to marry into K'hal Hashem - and this extends to all Arayos. 2


1

See Torah Temimah, note 3.

2

See Torah Temimah, note 2.

4)

Having already taught us in Acharei-Mos - Vayikra 18:14 that Eishes Achi Aviv is forbidden, why does the Torah repeat it here?

1.

Rashi #1: To subject the son to a second La'av 1 in the event that he transgresses.

2.

Rashi #2: To teach us - by virtue of its juxtaposition to "Lo Yavo Mamzer ... " - that a Mamzer comes only from [a Bi'ah of] Chayvei Kerisus' 2 , but not from Chayvei La'avin.


1

Yevamos 97a: She is already forbidden due to Dodaso and Yevamah le'Shuk! This is actually a third La'av.

2

Rashi: And all the more so from Chayvei Misos Beis-Din, since, in the realm of Arayos, every Chiyuv Misah incorporates Kareis.

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