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Naso | The Sotah Mystery Revisited
Naso | The Sotah Mystery Revisited, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
What do we anticipate will happen to the Sotah if she is guilty?
The Sotah ritual has alternatively been called an ordeal, a deterrent, a mollifier, a Divine judgement and much more. Following the lead of some recent research (cited on the source sheet), a new approach to understanding Sotah is proposed - with an interesting implication for a fresh understanding of Yehuda's judgment of Tamar (Bereishit 38)
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