Commentary for Sanhedrin 223:1

קשיא

This is a difficulty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though not actually refuting Resh Lakish, the Biblical expression 'nine out of the two' is difficult. ');">¹</span> The scholars propounded: What if they were self-seduced? Since Scripture writes [Certain men&nbsp;…] have seduced the inhabitants etc. It implies, but not if they were self-seduced; or perhaps, [the law holds good] even if they were self-seduced?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Bible merely stating a general truth, that people are usually enticed to idolatry by others, but not making this an integral condition of the law. ');">²</span>

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