Mesorat%20hashas for Sotah 5:23

ור' עקיבא מכי (ויקרא כא, ב) אם לשארו נפקא לה יטמא למה לי לחובה

And [how does] R. Ishmael [explain the repetition of jealous]? — Since it was necessary to write, And she be defiled and afterwards and she be not defiled, the Torah wrote and he be jealous of his wife.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The words are repeated because of the two contingencies mentioned and no such deduction is to be drawn as R. Akiba suggests. ');">²¹</span>

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