tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post6772690207841033130..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Naso: The Bitter Waters of Sotah as Selective Abortion of Bastardsjoshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-87381169772588452792008-06-08T06:21:00.000-04:002008-06-08T06:21:00.000-04:00Very neat!Very neat!joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-17520768951132692202008-06-06T10:40:00.000-04:002008-06-06T10:40:00.000-04:00Other ideas that would reinforce this line of thou...Other ideas that would reinforce this line of thought:<BR/>1) The fact that Chazal stress that the point of the sotah procedure is to prevent the birth of illegitimate children. (See Ramban on Posuk 20.)<BR/><BR/>2) "Ubar yerech imo" and a "nefel" is a stillborn child, hence "lanpil yareich" means to abort a fetus.<BR/><BR/>Very creative and I like this a lot. Perhaps when the Kohanim rush her out because of tumah, it refers to tumas leida.Chanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15785116781179439474noreply@blogger.com