Sotah 8:3-4
Sotah 8:3
The following do not return home from the front: one who builds a guard’s booth, a gazebo or a porch, one who plants four fruit trees or five non-fruit trees, and one who remarries a woman he divorced. If a Kohein Gadol marries a widow, a regular kohein marries a divorcee or a woman who performed chalitzah, a Yisroel marries a mamzeress or a Gibeonite woman, or a mamzer or a Gibeonite man marries the daughter of a Yisroel, they do not get sent home. Rabbi Yehuda says the same is true of one who rebuilds a house. Rabbi Elazar says that one who builds a house of bricks in Sharon does not go home (because such a house is not expected to last).
Sotah 8:4
The following people did not have to be sent home from the front because they never left home in the first place: one who built a house and dedicated it, planted a vineyard and redeemed it, or betrothed a woman and consummated the marriage, or married his deceased brother’s widow. Deuteronomy 24:5 says, “he will be free for his house for one year” – “for his house” means a house and “he shall be” includes a vineyard. “He shall gladden his wife” means a wife, “whom he has taken” includes his brother’s widow. These people do not even perform the public service of providing food and water to the troops and maintaining the roads.
Grateful Thanks for the Mishna Yomit Dedication of
Rabbi Louis Leifer and Mrs. Miriam D. Leifer z"l
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