Commentary for Avodah Zarah 33:11
איכא דאמרי ממינות אין מעבירה לא והא ההיא דאתאי קמיה דרב חסדא וא"ל [ר"ח זוידו לה זוודתא] ומתה מדקאמרה קלה שבקלות מכלל דמינות נמי הויא בה
Some say as follows: [Is it only] from minut that one dies if one repents, but not from other sins? Was there not a woman who came before R. Hisda who said, Prepare her shrouds and she died? Since she said that this was the lightest of her sins, it may be assumed that she was guilty of minut as well.
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
This is a different version of the above material. The midrash had said that one who repents of minut dies. But if one repents of another sin, one does not die? But didn’t R. Hisda say to the woman who came to repent of incest that she was going to die? And in this version she does die.
The answer is that since she said this was her lightest sin, we can presume that she also performed acts of minut from which she was also repenting. The woman died because of minut, not because of incest.
The answer is that since she said this was her lightest sin, we can presume that she also performed acts of minut from which she was also repenting. The woman died because of minut, not because of incest.
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