Comentários de Citação sobre Deuteronômio 23:2

[A priest] whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off, as well as their slaves, may eat terumah, but their wives may not. If, however, he did not know her after the his testes were crushed or his member was cut off, the wives may eat [terumah]. According to Deuteronomy 23:2, a man whose testes are crushed or whose member (penis) is cut off, may not enter into the assembly of God. This is understood to mean that they may not marry an Israelite woman. Our mishnah discusses a priest who has one of these physical defects. He may continue to eat terumah, as may his slaves, since he is a priest. However, his wife may not eat terumah since he was not allowed to marry her or have intercourse with her. We have already learned that once a woman has intercourse with someone forbidden to her she loses the right to eat terumah. However, if one of these physical defects occurred to him while he was married to her, and he does not continue to know (have intercourse) her afterwards, she may continue to eat terumah. The only reason that she loses her right to eat terumah is that she was disqualified by intercourse with someone forbidden to her. However, without such intercourse, she remains the wife of a priest and can continue to eat terumah.

Introduction This mishnah defines the terms petzua dakkah and kerut shofkhah mentioned in Deuteronomy 23:2. These two categories of men cannot marry full Israelite women.

A man who testes are wounded, and one whose member is cut off, are permitted to marry a convert or a freed slave. They are only forbidden to enter into the congregation, as it is said “No one whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord” (Deuteronomy 23:2). These two categories of men are permitted to marry converts and freed slaves, who according to this mishnah, are not considered to be part of “the congregation of the Lord”. Only those born as fit Israelites are considered to be part of “the congregation of the Lord”.

Amnon hated her. Our Rabbis say she tied a hair for him [in his genital area] and caused him to have a severed organ.⁶One who is so injured is prohibited from marrying a Jewish woman as related in Devorim 23:2. This interpretation of our verse is in Sanhedrin 21a.