Comentários de Citação sobre Deuteronômio 24:4

לא אוכל עוד לצאת ולבוא I CAN NO LONGER GO OUT AND COME IN — One might think that this was because his physical strength failed him! Scripture, however, states (Deuteronomy 34:7) “His eye was not dim nor his natural force abated!” What then is the meaning of לא אוכל? It means: “I am not permitted” (cf. Rashi on Deuteronomy 12:17 and Deuteronomy 24:4), because the power (leadership) is being taken from me and given to Joshua. — Another explanation of לצאת ולבוא is: I can no more take the lead in the matter of the Law; this teaches us that the traditions and the well-springs of wisdom were stopped up for him (cf. Sotah 13b).

And became defiled - during the period in which she was divorced, since she is only forbidden to return to [her original husband] if she was married [to someone else] by betrothal -- when it says "Then the first husband who divorced her shall not take her [into his household] to become his wife again" [Deuteronomy 24:4], it is referring to after betrothal and marriage, as it says "and becomes [the wife] of another man, then this latter man rejects her" [Deuteronomy 24:2-3].

ברוך טנאך, “blessed be your basket.” This refers to the basket in which the farmer presents his firstling fruit to the priest; we have the expression טנא in that context in Deut. 24,4.

A sota, who is by a prohibition - namely, "the first husband shall not," etc. [Deuteronomy 24:4], as we say in the first chapter of Yevamot [11b], "Rather, how do I establish the phrase: “After she was defiled” [Deuteronomy 24:4]? It comes to include a sota who secluded herself with another man.

Who is prohibited by a[n ordinary] prohibition - [as stated in] the first chapter of Yevamot: "after she was defiled” [Deuteronomy 24:4] includes a sota who secluded herself [Yevamot 11b:2].