וּמִֽי־הָאִ֞ישׁ אֲשֶׁר־אֵרַ֤שׂ אִשָּׁה֙ וְלֹ֣א לְקָחָ֔הּ יֵלֵ֖ךְ וְיָשֹׁ֣ב לְבֵית֑וֹ פֶּן־יָמוּת֙ בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה וְאִ֥ישׁ אַחֵ֖ר יִקָּחֶֽנָּה׃
At sino ang lalaking nakipagtipan nang mapapangasawa sa isang babae at hindi pa niya ito naiuuwi bilang asawa? Umalis siya at bumalik sa kanyang bahay, baka siya mamatay sa digmaan at ibang lalaki ang mag-uwi sa kanya bilang asawa.
Jerusalem Talmud Sotah
MISHNAH: “180Deut. 20:7. Who is the man who became betrothed181He married her in the preliminary ceremony (Note 146) but did not take her into his house. to a woman and did not take her,” etc. Not only one betrothed to a virgin, even one betrothed to a widow, even to one who waits for her brother-in-law182The widow of his childless brother. The surviving brother can marry her based on the dead brother’s preliminary marriage; but rabbinically one requires a new preliminary “bespeaking”, cf. Yebamot 2:1, Note 6. The next sentence shows that the Mishnah does not refer to this rabbinic ceremony.. Even if he heard that his brother had died in the war he then returns and leaves. All those who listen to the Cohen in the front lines return and provide food and water and improve the roads183They serve the army in the rear..
Jerusalem Talmud Sotah
Rebbi Joḥanan said, usage is between them; Rebbi Jehudah called a war of choice a war of obligation. “But in a war of duty everybody goes out, even a groom from his room and a bride from her bridal chamber.” Rav Ḥisda said235In the Babli, 44b, this is the opinion of Rav Ḥisda’s son-in-law Rava., they disagree. The rabbis say, a war of obligation was the war of David. A war of duty was the war of Joshua. Rebbi Jehudah called it a war of obligation if we went out against them236In the Babli, this is restricted to a preventive attack.; a war of duty if they attacked us. It is written: “King Asa proclaimed in all of Jehudah, nobody is free2371K. 15:22.”. What means “nobody is free”? Rebbi Simon and the rabbis. Rebbi Simon said, nobody is free to return home even for one hour238He abolished the exemption of the newlywed, Deut. 24:5.. But the rabbis say, there is no exemption for a scholar, son of a scholar239Who claim a general exemption from public works. In the opinion of the Babli, 10a, he abolished the exemptions both of the newlywed and of the scholar..