Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 212
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(דברים כא יב) וַהֲבֵאתָהּ אֶל תּוֹךְ בֵּיתֶךָ – וְלֹא לְבַיִת אַחֵר.
Pisqa’ 212³
- “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.
וְגִלְּחָה אֶת רֹאשָׁהּ וְעָשְׂתָה אֶת צִפָּרְנֶיהָ, רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר: תָּקוֹץ. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָה אוֹמֵר: תְּגַדֵּל.
- “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.
אָמַר רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר: נֶאֶמְרָה עֲשִׂיָּה בָּרֹאשׁ וְנֶאֶמְרָה עֲשִׂיָּה בַּצִּפָּרְנַיִם, מָה עֲשִׂיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה בָּרֹאשׁ – הַעֲבָרָה, אַף עֲשִׂיָּה הָאֲמוּרָה בַּצִּפָּרְנַיִם – הַעֲבָרָה!
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.
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״.
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.]