[Avodah] Eishet Yefat Toar

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 01:13:37PM +0300, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
: Are there any other examples of "Lo Dibra Torah Ela K'neged Yetzer Hara"?

Lo dibrah Torah... appears here in the Yalqut Shim'oni. I assume that's
Rashi's source.

I found two other usages, but neither were about negotiating with the
yh"r rather than prohibiting something unrealistically.

The YS also has it in parashas Qedoshim (247:615), on the mitzvah of
orlah, in the name of R' Aqiva. And again not in the context of giving
license in an unrealistic nisayon, but telling the farmer that he won't
lose by keeping the mitzvos of orlah and revai.

The phrase "keneged yh"r hakasuv medaber" appears in Medrash Tanaim
on the mussar to someone freeing an eved nitzra at yovel. "Lo yiqsheh
be'einekha" (Bamidbar 15:18). Like the Yalqut on orlah, it's a message
of telling the yh"r it won't miss out on what it wants, and not about
a heter that only exists because a full prohibition couldn't be adhered
to.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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