## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 212

###### Sifrei Devarim 212:1
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(דברים כא יב) **וַהֲבֵאתָהּ אֶל תּוֹךְ בֵּיתֶךָ** – וְלֹא לְבַיִת אַחֵר.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 212**³
1. “And you may bring her into the inner-most chamber of *your* house” (Dt. 21:12)
but not *anyone else’s* house.

footnotes:
³ H:224; JN2:113.


###### Sifrei Devarim 212:2
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**וְגִלְּחָה אֶת רֹאשָׁהּ וְעָשְׂתָה אֶת צִפָּרְנֶיהָ**, רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר: תָּקוֹץ. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָה אוֹמֵר: תְּגַדֵּל.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
2. “Where she shall *shave* her head and *do* her nails” (Dt. 21:12)—
R. Eliezer says:
She *trims* her nails.
R. Akiva says:
She *grows* them long.


###### Sifrei Devarim 212:3
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אָמַר רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר: נֶאֶמְרָה עֲשִׂיָּה בָּרֹאשׁ וְנֶאֶמְרָה עֲשִׂיָּה בַּצִּפָּרְנַיִם, מָה עֲשִׂיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה בָּרֹאשׁ – הַעֲבָרָה, אַף עֲשִׂיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה בַּצִּפָּרְנַיִם – הַעֲבָרָה!

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
Said R. Eliezer:
*Doing* applies to what she does to her head,
and *doing* applies to what she does to her nails—
just as the term applied to her head implies *trimming*,
so, too, the term applied to her nails implies *trimming*.


###### Sifrei Devarim 212:4
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רַבִּי עֲקִיבָה אוֹמֵר: נֶאֶמְרָה עֲשִׂיָּה בָּרֹאשׁ וְנֶאֶמְרָה עֲשִׂיָּה בַּצִּפָּרְנַיִם, מָה עֲשִׂיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה בָּרֹאשׁ – נִוּוּל, אַף עֲשִׂיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה בַּצִּפָּרְנַיִם – נִוּוּל. וּרְאָיָה לְדִבְרֵי רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר (שמואל ב יט כה): ״וּמְפִיבֹשֶׁת בֶּן שָׁאוּל יָרַד לִקְרַאת הַמֶּלֶךְ לֹא עָשָׂה רַגְלָיו וְלֹא עָשָׂה שְׂפָמוֹ״.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
R. Akiva says:
*Doing*, applied to her head, indicates she has been disgraced;
*doing*, applied to her nails, indicates that she has been disgraced.
And there is proof for R. Eliezer’s view:
“And Mefiboshet, the son of Saul, went down to the king,
without having *done* his feet or his moustache” (2Sam. 19:28)—
[Thus, *doing*, implies an act
of trimming that marks one as being in disgrace.]