תּלמוד אויף דברים 7:2

Rav Huna said that in the days of Rebbi Eleazar ben Azariah they tried to include them⁸⁶To permit marriage with Gibeonites.. Rebbi Abbahu inverts the wording: In the days of Rebbi Eleazar they said, who could purify the altar’s part⁸⁷R. Eleazar ben Azariah vetoed the admission of Gibeonites into the Jewish marriage pool by arguing that Jos. 9:23,27 implies that Joshua made the Gibeonites Temple slaves, in addition to their being the people’s slaves by Jos. 9:21. Now the servitude to the people had certainly lapsed. The “dedicated ones” returned from Babylonia as free men and one had to assume that already in the time of the Judges they had regularly been manumitted in this respect. But nobody could manumit Temple slaves, and marriage with slaves was impossible. In this version, the exlusion of Gibeonites from the Jewish marriage pool is a legal necessity which cannot be changed.? That implies that Joshua excluded them. He excluded them only as disqualified for marriage. If you would say, disqualified (because of sins)⁸⁸It seems that one should read with the parallel in Ketubot 3:1 (27a 1. 59), Notes 16–19, עבדות “slavery” instead of עבירות “sins”. then the rapist of a Gibeonite girl should not have to pay the fine, but we have stated⁸⁹Implied by Mishnah Ketubot 3:1. The same Mishnah states that the statutory fine is not applicable to the rape of a virgin slave girl. If Gibeonites were excluded as Temple slaves, they should be classified with slaves in matters of the fine (and be excluded from marriage in all its forms.) Cf. Tosafot Yebamot 79a, s.v. ונתינים. It follows that R. Abbahu’s argument is rejected.: The rapist of a Gibeonite girl has to pay the fine.” Rebbi Eleazar said, he cursed them as a snake, as it is said: “But now you are cursed⁹⁰Jos. 9:23..” And it is written: “The people of Israel said to the Ḥiwwite.⁹¹Jos. 9:7.” But were they Ḥiwwites⁹²In 2S. 20:2, they are described as Emorites.? They acted like the snake⁹³In Amaraic חִוְיָא. The name of Eve, חַוָּה, instead of the Hebrew חַיָּה, hints at her relationship with the snake. which said, I know that the Holy One, praise to Him, did say “because on the day you eat from it, you will die a death⁹⁴Gen. 2:17..” I shall go and trick them so that they eat and will be punished and I shall inherit the earth for myself. So these people acted; they said, we know that the Holy One, praise to Him, said to Israel: “You shall certainly ban them, the Hittite, the Emorite, and the Perizite, as the Eternal, your God, has commanded you⁹⁵Misquoted from Deut. 20:17.” And it is written: “You shall not conclude a covenant with them.⁹⁶Deut. 7:2.” We shall go and trick them that they conclude a covenant with us. As you take it, if they kill us, they violate their oath. If they let us live, they violated the [divine] decision. In any case, they will be punished and we shall inherit the Land.

He who sees beautiful trees or beautiful people says: Praise to Him Who created beautiful creatures in His world⁸⁰In the Babli (58b) and the Tosephta (6:4), the formula is “Who has beautiful creatures in His world,” without reference to Creation.. It happened that Rabban Gamliel saw a beautiful Gentile woman and recited a benediction over her. Did not say Rebbi Zeïra in the name of Rebbi Yose bar Ḥanina in the name of Rebbi Yoḥanan (Deut. 7:2): “Do not favour them,” do not ascribe charm to them? He did not say “may there be no harm” but “Who created beautiful creatures in His world,” since even if one sees a beautiful horse or a beautiful donkey, one says: Praise to Him Who created beautiful creatures in His world. Does Rabban Gamliel usually look at women? It was a curved road, like a pwpsdws⁸¹This word is unexplained. In the parallel in Avodah zarah and in Arukh, the spelling is פסווריס, R. Salomon Cirillo has פיוסרס. R. J. Levy conjectures Greek σπεῖρα “a spiral (road)”. R. M. Margalit (פני משה) thinks the word is Latinate, similar to Italian passavia “passageway; bridge.” It could be Greek περίοδος, ἡ “way around, circuit, circular path” (E. G.).; he looked at her because he could not avoid her.

²⁸¹Num. rabba 9(24). It is written: “They came to the vineyards in direction of Timna.²⁸²Jud. 14:5.” Rav²⁸³The title has to be “Rebbi”. Samuel ben Rav Isaac said, this teaches you that his father and mother were showing him the vineyards in direction of Timna sown in several kinds and saying to him: My son, just as their vineyards are sown with several kinds so their daughters are sown with several kinds²⁸⁴They are children of adultery. Jud. 14:4.. “And his father and mother did not know that this was from the Eternal, that he was looking for a pretext from the Philistines.” Rebbi Eleazar said, In seven places it is written: “Do not contract marriage with them.²⁸⁵That verse is only in Deut. 7:3. But the prohibition of Canaanite women is also in Ex. 34:16. Outside the Pentateuch, the prohibition is mentioned Mal. 2:11, Ezra 9:2,12,14; Neh. 10:31.” Rebbi Abun said, to prohibit seven peoples²⁸⁶The seven Canaanite tribes enumerated in Gen. 15:20–21. Philistines are not mentioned in that list.. And here, it says so²⁸⁷It is not obvious what the remark means. According to R. David Fraenckel, since Simson’s relations with Philistine women were not forbidden, why was he punished? According to R. Moses Margalit, since all non-Jewish women are forbidden in the interpretation of pentateuchal law in Mal., Ezra, Neh., how can it be said that his first marriage was (Jud. 14:4) “from the Eternal”?? Rebbi Isaac said, “if he scoffs about the scoffers.²⁸⁸Prov. 3:34. According to R. David Fraenckel, since at least Simson’s relations with the Gazean prostitute and Dalilah were illegitimate, he deserved punishment.”