Commentary for Yevamot 26:20

you shall not form separate sects!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why, then, was the Scroll allowed to be read on different days by different classes of people? ');">⁵⁷</span> (Is not Lo tithgodedu required for its own context, the All Merciful having said, 'You shall not inflict upon yourselves any bruise for the dead'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 13 for the rendering of E.V. ');">⁵⁸</span> — If so, Scripture should have said, Lo tithgodedu,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which would have implied the prohibition of cutting or bruising the body. (V. p. 70, n. 13.) ');">⁵⁹</span>

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