Commentary for Kiddushin 163:3
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> מאי טעמא אילימא משום ינוקי והתניא אמרו לו לר' יהודה לא נחשדו ישראל על משכב זכור ולא על הבהמה אלא רווק משום אמהתא דינוקי אשה משום אבהתא דינוקי
R'ELEAZAR SAID: ONE ALSO WHO HAS NO WIFE. The scholars propounded: [Does it mean,] one who has no wife at all,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a widower.');"><sup>7</sup></span> or whose wife does not live with him? - Come and hear: Also one who has a wife but she does not live with him may not be an elementary teacher. R'JUDAH SAID: AN UNMARRIED MAN MUST NOT TEND etc. It was taught: They said to R'Judah: Israel is suspected of neither pederasty nor bestiality.
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