Commentary for Kiddushin 70:7
אמר אביי להשחתה לא מצית אמרת דיליף פאת פאת מבני אהרן מה להלן נשים פטורות אף כאן נשים פטורות
[To intimate], 'thy beard,' but not thy wife's beard. Is it then not?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Is not a woman's beard subject to this prohibition?');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
Abaye says that you cannot read the baraita as being in respect to marring one’s beard because the word “corner” appears here and in the mitzvoth given to priests (Leviticus 21:5). Since there it refers only to men, so too here in the commandment not to mar one’s beard issued to all Israelites it refers only to men.
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