민수기 15:25의 인용 해설

Every intelligent student knows that entreaty (a form of prayer) is addressed to the attribute of Justice and that it represents G’d’s “left hand.” We have an explicit verse distinguishing between different kinds of prayers [and the addresses to which they are directed in the first instance, Ed.] In Psalms 30,9 David says: אליך י-ה-ו-ה אקרא, ואל א-ד-נ-י אתחנן, ”to You O Lord I called, and to my G’d I made appeal.” Another verse describing an entreaty being addressed to the attribute of Justice is found in Deut. 3,24: א-ד-נ-י אלוקים אתה החילות וגו'. At that time Moses’ prayer had been described as a תחנה in the preceding verse. [The concept with which we are all familiar is that G’d employs the right hand to attract, to draw near to Him, whereas when He has occasion to reject, to push away, He uses His left hand, i.e. the “weaker” hand to do so. Ed.] Our sages also make a distinction between prayers offered and described as לפני ה', and those addressed as לה', the former being addressed to the attribute of Justice.

And let [some sheaves] fall for her. שֹׁל תָּשֹׁלּוּ =] you should forget; pretend as though you are forgetting.¹⁴The double verb indicates that the action was to be repeated many times. The Targum for שְׁגָגָה [=oversight], is שְׁלוּתָא,¹⁵Bamidbar 15:25. and similarly, “because of this error.”¹⁶II Shmuel 6:7. Another explanation [of שֹׁל תָּשֹׁלּוּ is “let fall”], an expression [as in,] “your olive tree will cast off [= יִשַּׁל [its fruit].”¹⁷Devarim 28:40.

The discharge called זיבה is not of the same category; this is why when the Torah describes the phenomenon it emphasises that it occurs during the days of the month when menstruation cannot be expected (verse 25). Alternatively, this discharge may occur many days after she had finished her monthly cycle. This discharge is an abnormality just as the discharge of semen-like fluid in the male is an abnormality. In both instances the cure has to be followed by a sacrificial offering. It is worth noting that we are not familiar with the disease called נדה, menstrual discharge, amongst any other female species. It is something exclusive to the human species and due to the sin committed by the first woman when she ate from the tree of knowledge. According to Sotah 12 it was the result of a decree recorded at that time that not only she but all women after her would experience discomfort, pain, etc., in anything connected with conception, pregnancy, birthing, etc., (compare Genesis 3,16). Seeing that the beasts have no intelligence and their entire lives are not based on considerations involving reward and punishment, there is no reason to afflict the female of their species with such a natural disease.
One may speculate that due to the spirit of impurity which has become an integral part of woman ever since that experience with the serpent, woman is able to display drops of blood on a mirror or glass surface after she has looked at it with intensity during the beginning of her state of menstruation. (compare what we wrote on Leviticus 12,2 at the end.)