Yerushalmi Sotah 4:5 ירושלמי סוטה ד׳:ה׳

MISHNAH: For the following the court will declare jealousy: One whose husband had become a deaf-mute, or insane, or was confined in a jail; not to make her drink but to make her ineligible for her ketubah⁸⁴Since Num. 5:14 requires the husband to declare his jealousy in order to bring her to the Temple. R. Yose requires the presence of the husband only for the trip to the Temple and the ceremony (vv. 15 ff.). Rebbi Yose says, also to make her drink: When her husband will be freed from jail he should make her drink.

HALAKHAH: “For the following the court will declare jealousy,” etc. “The children of Israel.⁸⁵This paragraph is copied verbally from Halakhah 1, Notes 10–12, but the meaning is different.”

⁸⁵This paragraph is copied verbally from Halakhah 1, Notes 10–12, but the meaning is different. Why can he not make her drink⁸⁶Why does the majority not empower the freed or healed husband to make his wife drink?? It is a decision of the verse: “The man shall bring his wife to the Cohen⁸⁷Num. 5:15..” Then he should not be able to declare his jealousy⁸⁸The court as guardian of the incapacitated man should not be able to do what he himself could not do at the moment.! The Torah said, “and he declared his jealousy to his wife,” “and he declared his jealousy to his wife,⁸⁹Num. 5:14; the court is empowered even if the man is temporarily disabled from acting as a husband.” even if she is only partially his wife.

From where that the intercourse of a disabled disables⁹⁰Disables a woman of the priestly clan (a wife or a daughter) from eating sanctified food such as heave; cf. Yebamot 7:5.? What are we talking about? If about a married woman, there is a serious [offense].⁹¹Adultery is a capital crime. If about a widow married to the High Priest, it already is written “The man shall bring his wife to the Cohen.⁹²Cf. Note 87. Mishnah 1 already stated that a forbidden wife is not counted as a wife and we just have established that the intercourse with a man who cannot be legally married bars a woman from priesthood.” What is equal between them is: Everybody’s intercourse disqualifies those whose descendant would be disqualified⁹³The child of the otherwise married woman is a bastard, the child of the widow married to the High Priest is desecrated.. ⁹⁴This text is from Yebamot 7:5, Notes 111–116. These are: “A child of nine years and one day, an Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, or Egyptian proselyte, or a bastard, desecrated, Gibeonite, Samaritan, and Gentile who had intercourse with the daughter of a Cohen, a Levite, or an Israel, disqualified her for the priesthood. Rebbi Yose said, everybody’s intercourse disqualifies those whose descendant would be disqualified; his intercourse does not disqualify those whose descendant would not be disqualified. Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel says, in all cases, if his daughter is permitted to you, so is his widow; if his daughter is not permitted to you, neither is his widow.”