Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 173:12

The Torah thereby taught etiquette, that a man must enquire of his hostess [about his host].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus they asked Sarah, Where is he (sc. Abraham)' just as they asked him about her (Tosaf.). [Rashi interprets: that a man should enquire (of the host) about the hostess. On dotted letters, v. Sanh. (Sonc. ed.) p. 285, n. 3.] ');">²²</span> But did not Samuel say: One must not inquire at all after a woman's well-being?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to Tosaf.'s interpretation of the preceding dictum, this question cannot refer to it, but to the literal meaning of the verse, that they enquired after Sarah. ');">²³</span>

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