Commentary for Moed Katan 33:14

ריש לקיש הוה מנטר פרדיסא אתא ההוא גברא וקאכיל תאיני רמא ביה קלא ולא אשגח ביה אמר ליהוי ההוא גברא בשמתא א"ל אדרבה ליהוי ההוא גברא בשמתא אם ממון נתחייבתי לך נידוי מי נתחייבתי לך

clothes, don a sordid wrap and do the sordid deed that his heart desires rather than profane the name of Heaven openly.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. kid., Sonc. ed. p. 199 notes.');">¹⁴</span> What [was the incident] of the domestic in Rabbi's house? It was one of the maidservants in Rabbi's house that had noticed a man beating his grown-up son and said, Let that fellow be under a shammetha! because he sinned against the words [of Holy Writ]: Put not a stumbling-block before the blind.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XIX, 14.');">¹⁵</span>

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