פֿאַרבונדענע פּסוקים אויף שמואל א 2:22

⁹This text is also in Soṭah 1:4, 1. 66 f., Notes 198–208. The variant readings from there are indicated by ס. To the sources indicated there one may add Gen. rabba 85(8) (in the name of R. Immi.) Rebbi Ḥizqiya in the name of Rebbi Aḥa: Rebbi used to explain three verses for praise. “She sat at the entrance to the double spring.” Is this possible? Even the most brazen whore would not do that. But she lifted her eyes to the door to which all hope is directed; she said before Him: Master of the universe, do not let me leave this house empty. Another explanation: “She sat at the entrance to the double spring;” she opened his eyes and told him, I am single and pure¹⁴The courts will not intervene in the monetary affairs of married couples. After the husband’s death, the liquidation of the husband’s estate is a legitimate object of the court’s attention.. “And Eli was very old; …, that they slept with.¹⁵This is confirmed in the Babli, 107a, but rejected as practice, 107b.” It is written “they bedded them¹⁶Our Mishnah reads “if somebody went overseas”, i. e., with the intent to return. In this version, the court will intervene in behalf of the married woman. But “if somebody left for overseas”, i. e., emigrated permanently, then the Mishnah only deals either with an abandoned wife or a widow, but not with a wife who expects her husband to return.”. Rebbi said, the women were bringing their nests¹⁷The oath required in the opinion of the High Priests’ sons. to become purified for their husbands and they were deferring the sacrifices; the verse counts it as if they had slept with them. Rebbi Tanḥuma said, that is what he scolds them for: “Why do you disregard my slaughter sacrifice and my flour sacrifice?” Could he remove them from the serious sin and scold them for the simple one? “His sons did not walk in his ways,” that they were taking tithe and judging. Rebbi Berekhiah said, a camel caravan was passing by, they neglected public needs and dealt in merchandise.