Commentary for Sanhedrin 211:16

(במדבר לא, ח) ואת מלכי מדין הרגו על חלליהם וגו' את בלעם בן בעור הרגו בחרב בלעם מאי בעי התם א"ר יוחנן שהלך ליטול שכר עשרים וארבעה אלף [שהפיל מישראל] אמר מר זוטרא בר טוביה אמר רב היינו דאמרי אינשי גמלא אזלא למיבעי קרני אודני דהוו ליה גזיזן מיניה

and heathen wine had not yet been forbidden. Said she to him, 'Wouldst thou like to drink a glass of wine?' <font>Having drunk, [his passion] was inflamed, and he exclaimed to her, 'Yield to me!' Thereupon she brought forth an idol</font> from her bosom and said to him, <font>'Worship this'! 'But I am a Jew'</font>, he &nbsp; &nbsp; protested. 'What does that concern thee?' she rejoined, <font>'Nothing is required but that thou should uncover thyself'</font> — whilst <font>he did not know that such was its worship</font>. 'Nay', [said she,] 'I will not leave thee ere <font>thou hast denied the Torah of Moses thy teacher,' as it is written, They went into Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and their abominations were according as they loved</font>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hosea IX, 10; i.e., they separated themselves from Moses' teaching. ');">²²</span>

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