Talmud su Geremia 45:78

¹⁶²The same text in Ketubot 2:10. Copied in Num. Rabba Naśo 9(38), a text of doubtful antiquity. Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Yosef sent after his wife. He said, three students should accompany her, so that if one has to absent himself for his needs, she should still be with two of them. But did we not state¹⁶³In the Mishnah here, which requires only two chaperones.: “And they give him two scholars to prevent him from sleeping with her on the trip”? Rebbi Abin said, with her husband that makes three¹⁶⁴In Mishnah Qiddušin 4:12 it is stated that a woman may be alone with two men, but not with a single man who is not her husband or close relative. The anecdotal fact told here is stated in the Babli, 7a, as a legal precept by R. Ḥiyya bar Yosef’s teacher Rav.. ¹⁶⁵These sentences make no sense here; they are copied from Ketubot, where they refer to Mishnah 2:10, that in a city conquered by an enemy army all women, in absence of testimony to the contrary, are considered raped and, therefore, all wives of Cohanim are prohibited to their husbands. It is reported that R. Zachariah ben Haqqaṣab, who was a priest, testified that his wife’s hand did not leave his own from the moment the Roman army entered Jerusalem until it left, but he was rebuked and told that nobody may testify in his own behalf. The baraita notes that he refused to divorce her.{Also he rented a house for her and looked after her upkeep but was never alone with her except in presence of her children. He applied to himself the verse: “I exercised myself in my worry but found no rest¹⁶⁶Jer. 45:3.”.}

¹⁷³He let the husband, a Cohen, stay married to his wife on the testimony of his own underage son. The Babli disagrees, 27b, and admits the testimony of children and family slaves only if given spontaneously, without being asked; certainly not in the court of a rabbi. Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Yosef sent after his wife. He said, three students should accompany her, so that if one has to absent himself for his needs, she should still be with two of them. But did we not state: “And they give him two scholars to prevent him from sleeping with her on the trip”? Rebbi Abin said, with her husband that makes three. ¹⁷⁴“He” is R. Zachariah, the son of the butcher, and “she” is his wife whom he refused to divorce but with whom he could not live. Also he rented a house for her and looked after her upkeep but was never alone with her except in the presence of her children. He applied to himself the verse¹⁷⁵Jer. 45:3.: “I exercised myself in my worry but found no rest”.