[Avodah] Why the woman is makneh herself

[Shmuel Weidberg]

On 12/24/06, Chana Luntz <chana at kolsassoon.org.uk> wrote:

> As I have mentioned when the use of this phrase came up previously, it
> is very rash to take a rabbinic concept which has a particular
> application, and apply it more generally, especially in a Torah
> shebiktav context in situations where chazal and the rishonim/achronim
> never applied the concept.

If a concept is valid, then whether it has been explicitly expressed
previously, should not matter. The concept would have been made use of
because it is true.

You say that the concept was specifically applied to yichud, but if
you are willing to try to understand the underlying reasoning behind
it, it would make sense to apply it to marriage as well.

-Shmuel