## Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Nasso

###### Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Nasso 7:1
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איש איש כי תשטה אשתו. שנו רבותינו אין המנאפין מנאפין עד שתכנס בהן רוח של שטוות, שנאמר איש איש כי תשטה אשתו, למדנו לאשה, לאיש מניין, שנאמר נואף אשה חסר לב (משלי ו לב).

**Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.:**
(Numb. 5:12:) IF ANYONE HAS HIS WIFE GO ASTRAY (*tisteh*). Our masters have taught: The adulterers do not commit adultery, until a spirit of madness (*shetut*)³⁶ and *tisteh* appear to have the same root. enters them.³⁷., Numb. 2:5. Thus it is stated (ibid.): IF ANYONE HAS HIS WIFE GO ASTRAY. Here we have learned about the woman. Where is shown about the man? Where it is stated (in Prov. 6:32): THE ONE WHO COMMITS ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN IS HAS NO SENSE (literally: IS LACKING HEART); THE ONE WHO DOES SO DESTROYS HIS OWN LIFE.³⁸

footnotes:
³⁶ In the unpointed Hebrew text, shetut
³⁷ Tanh
³⁸ Cf. Numb. 9:6.