Commentary for Berakhot 62:4
אל תתן את אמתך לפני בת בליעל אמר רבי אלעזר מכאן לשכור שמתפלל כאלו עובד ע"ז כתיב הכא לפני בת בליעל וכתיב התם (דברים יג, יד) יצאו אנשים בני בליעל מקרבך מה להלן ע"ז אף כאן ע"ז
"Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman" (I Sam. i. 16) — R. Eleazar said : Hence it is inferred that if a drunken person prays, it is as though he practised idolatry; for it is written here "a wicked woman," and elsewhere it is written, "Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of thee" (Deut. xiii. 14) — as the reference in this latter passage is to idolatry, so also in the other passage idolatry is intended.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Lit. daughter of Belial.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Lit. sons of Belial.
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