Commentary for Sotah 38:11
וליטעמיך תיקשי לך היא גופה משקרב הקומץ אינה יכולה לחזור בה והלא בדוקה ועומדת
and this is what he means: when [she retracts] through defiance she does not drink at all; but when it is through trembling, so long as the priest has not offered the handful she is able to retract, since [the writing on] the scroll had not yet been obliterated, or even if it had been obliterated because the priests acted illegally in obliterating it; but if he had offered the handful, in which case the priests acted legally in obliterating it, she is unable to retract.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Similarly R. Akiba in stating in the first Baraitha that she is given to drink by force refers to the case when it is through trembling.] ');"><sup>11</sup></span>
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