Commentary for Sotah 53:9
במאי קא מיפלגי רבנן סברי בעינן וקינא והביא ור' יוסי סבר לא בעינן וקינא והביא
To include the wife of a deaf man, the wife of an imbecile, the wife of a weak-minded man, and cases where the husband has gone on a journey to a distant country or is imprisoned, that a Court of Law can give them warning to disqualify them in connection with the marriage-settlement. It is possible [to think that the warning] is also to make them drink; therefore there is a text to say: Then shall the man bring his wife.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 25. ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
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