[Avodah] Deuteronomy 22:17

[Jay F. Shachter]

> 
> Specifically, it [TSBP] says that "ve'eileh besulei biti" does *not*
> refer to "bloody sheets" or whatever, but to witnesses who refute
> the husband's witnesses.
> 

Yet another case of a contributor to this mailing list making an
unqualified statement that should be qualified.  Please stop doing
that.

Our Sages said a lot of different things, and they said a lot of
contradictory things (sometimes they even contradicted themselves,
even the greatest of them, as I pointed out in a recent posting).
Read Ramban on Deuteronomy 22:17.  He disagrees with Rashi, he says
that the verse means, literally, a bloody sheet, and he gives better
and more authoritative sources than Rashi.

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