Pisqa’ 236172H:245;JN2:154. 1. “To be his wife, but now he hates her; moreover, he has leveled scandalous charges against her, saying: I have found no signs of maidenhood in your daughter! But here is proof of my daughter’s maidenhood!” (Dt.22:16-17)— that is, here are witnesses to impugn this guy’s witnesses!
2. “If a man is found to have bedded a woman who has been mounted by her husband” (Dt.22:22)— R. Ishmael says: The verse comes to teach you about a [childless, widowed] sister-in-law [awaiting her levir’s decision to marry her or to release her from marriage to him]: One consorting with her [after her husband’s death] is not liable under the rule [against mounting a married woman] until she is actually mounted.173The bulk of Pisqa’ 236. 1-2 consists of material that is poorly attested in the early versions of Sifre.
לְאִשָּׁה וַיִּשְׂנָאֶהָ (דברים כב יז), וְהִנֵּה הוּא שָׂם לָהּ עֲלִילוֹת דְּבָרִים לֵאמֹר: לֹא מָצָאתִי לְבִתְּךָ בְּתוּלִים, וְאֵלֶּה בְּתוּלֵי בִתִּי – הֲרֵי עֵדִים לְהַזִּים עֵדָיו שֶׁל זֶה.
Pisqa’ 236172H:245;JN2:154.
1. “To be his wife, but now he hates her;
moreover, he has leveled scandalous charges against her, saying:
I have found no signs of maidenhood in your daughter!
But here is proof of my daughter’s maidenhood!” (Dt.22:16-17)—
that is, here are witnesses to impugn this guy’s witnesses!
רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: אֵינוֹ חַיָּב לְעוֹלָם אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן בָּעַל.
R. Judah says:
He is never obliged
[under this rule to indemnify the father]
unless he has in fact mounted her
[before leveling his charge].
וְאָמַר אֲבִי הַנַּעֲרָה, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁתּוֹבֵעַ מַתְחִיל בַּדְּבָרִים תְּחִלָּה.
“Then the father of the young lady shall say to the elders” (Dt.22:16)—
this teaches that the plaintiff is the first to present his case.
(דברים כב כב) בְּעֻלַת בַּעַל, רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל אוֹמֵר: בָּא הַכָּתוּב לְלַמֶּדְךָ עַל הַיְּבָמָה שֶׁהַבָּא עָלֶיהָ – אֵינוֹ חַיָּב עַד שֶׁתִּבָּעֵל.
2. “If a man is found to have bedded a woman who has been mounted by her husband” (Dt.22:22)—
R. Ishmael says:
The verse comes to teach you about
a [childless, widowed] sister-in-law
[awaiting her levir’s decision
to marry her or to release her from marriage to him]:
One consorting with her [after her husband’s death]
is not liable under the rule
[against mounting a married woman]
until she is actually mounted.173The bulk of Pisqa’ 236. 1-2 consists of material that is poorly attested in the early versions of Sifre.