What is the connection between the current Parshah and the previous one?
Seforno: It teaches us that, even though the Yevamah is commanded to shame the Yavam who did not have compassion on her husband, she is not allowed to shame someone who is fighting with her husband. 1
See also Ba'al ha'Turim.
Why does the Torah insert "Ki Yinatzu Anashim"?
Rashi: To teach us that if two people enter into a quarrel, they will end up striking one another - because Shalom does not come from quarrels.
Why does the Torah insert the (otherwise superfluous) word "Ki Yinatzu Anashim Yachdav "?
Sifri: To teach us that 'Anashim" is La'av Davka, and that the same Din will apply if women are fighing or if a man and a woman are fighting.
Why does the Torah add "Ish ve'Achiv"?
Bava Kama 88a: To incorporate Avadim in the Din of Boshes - since they are subject to Mitzvos. 1
Oznayim la'Torah: Because generally it is brothers, who know each other's secrets, who come to blows. 2
What are the implications of the word "Vekarvah Eishes ha'Echad"?
Yerushalmi, Bava Kama, 8:3: It implies that if the wife of the second man emulates the wife of the man in the Pasuk, she is not subject to "Vekatzosah es Kapah". 1
See Torah Temimah, note 176.
What are the implications of the dual expressions "ve'Shalchah Yadah v'Hichzikah"?
Bava Kama, 27a: It implies that the woman is liable for Boshes if she intended to wound the man, even though she did not intend to embarrass him. 1
Bava Kama, 28a: It implies that if a Shali'ach Beis-Din causes embarrassment to a litigant who refuses to appear in Beis-Din he is not obligated to paty Boshes. 2
Yerushalmi Bava Kama, 8:3: If one did not even intend to wound, one is Chayav Nezek but not (Ripuy, Sheves or) Boshes ? for example, where one falls off a roof via a regular wind. 3
Sifri: It teaches us that "bi'Mevushav" is La'av Davka, and that the Din applies regarding any way that the woman intended to wound him and to embarrass him. 4
Torah Temimah, citing Bava Kama, 28a: If there is no other way of saving her husband, then her hand adopts the Din of a Shali'ach Beis-Din, and she is Patur. See also Torah Temimah, note 182..
See Torah Temimah, note 177.
See Torah Temimah, note 179, who elaborates.
See Torah Temmah, note 180 and ha'Torah ve'ha'Mitzvah.
What is "bi'Mevushav"?
Rosh: They are his testicles - 'a location of shame'.