Re: Men and Modesty

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:02:00 +0000 (UTC), "maxine in ri"
<weedfam@xxxxxxxxx> said:

cindys wrote:

[snip]

I think he was saying that if a woman learns torah she is more likely to get
away with sexual promiscuity than one who doesn't because a woman who learns
has earned extra mitzvah points for her learning and therefore if she is
accused of infidelity and is tested by drinking the sota water, the merit of
her mitzvos will protect her from exploding (women who were accused of
adultery would drink the sota water. If they were guilty, they would
explode. If they were innocent, they would be blessed with children).
Best regards,
---Cindy S.

This is beginning to sound like many other magic-based religions, where
one can obtain a charm (mitzvos for studying Torah) that will protect
one from harm (exploding if guilty). This is too close to the dunking
test for witches: if she floats, she's a witch so we kill her. If she
drowns, she was innocent, so we can bury her in consecrated ground.

ISTM that the sota test is the exact opposite. An innocent woman had
nothing to fear. (Well, except being paraded in the Beit ha-Mikdash
half-naked.)

Or does the Torah offer an antidote for sota-water that could allow a
guilty person to survive it?

According to R' Eliezer, yes - the merit of Tora learning.

[snip]

Yisroel "Godwrestler Warriorson" Markov - Boston, MA Member
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