Jewish%20thought for Nedarim 39:14

ורמינהו שאלו את אימא שלום מפני מה

Others say: No man who experiences shame<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., who is not hardened or callous, but feels humiliated when he does wrong. ');">²⁵</span> will easily sin; and he who is not shamefaced — it is certain that his ancestors were not present at Mount Sinai. R. Johanan b. Dahabai said: The Ministering Angels told me four things: People are born lame because they [sc. their parents] overturned their table [i.e., practised unnatural cohabitation]; dumb, because they kiss 'that place'; deaf, because they converse during cohabitation; blind, because they look at 'that place'. But this contradicts the following: Imma Shalom<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The wife of R. Eliezer b. Hyrkanos, a sister of Gamaliel II. ');">²⁶</span> was asked: Why are

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