사사기 13:4 해설: Rashi & Tze'enah Ure'enah

Freshly pressed or intoxicating wine Freshly pressed or aged wine.¹This is Targum Yonasan’s translation.

“Now be careful” [13:4]. The angel said to the woman: Be warned not to drink wine and do not eat things that are ritually impure. That is to say, what the nazirite does not eat, you should also not eat.¹Yalkut Shimoni, Judges, Remez, 68.

The Baal ha-Turim asks a question concerning the haftorah.²I was not able to find the source of this comment Once it is written, “do not eat anything unclean” [13:4]. Another time it is written, “eat nothing unclean” [13:7]. He speaks once the way one used to speak to a man and once he talks the way one used to talk to a woman.³The problem that is being raised is that in the first verse, the word for impurity is in the masculine form, while in the second verse it is in the feminine form. The explanation is that women advised the woman who could not have children that she should eat the stomach of a hare and she would have children. It was the custom that every woman who could not have children was given the stomach of a hare to eat. That is why the verse says once, impure in the masculine, if it was a male hare and once it says impurity in the feminine, if it was a female hare. The truth is that the term hare is both male and female. That is to say, the term hare includes both genders. The angel warned the woman that she should not eat the stomach of a hare as a remedy. The Holy One would give her a son without the remedy from the hare.