Musar for Shabbat 296:3
סבור מינה הנ"מ בדרבנן אבל בדאורייתא לא ולא היא ל"ש בדרבנן ול"ש בדאורייתא דהא תוספת דיוה"כ דאורייתא היא וקא חזינן להו דקאכלי ושתו עד שתחשך ולא אמרי' להו ולא מידי:
— yet we see [women]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. BaH. ');"><sup>4</sup></span> who carry pitchers and sit at the entrance of alleys, and we do not rebuke them? But leave Israel: better that they should [sin] in ignorance than deliberately. Now, he understood from this that that [principle] holds good only in respect of Rabbinical [enactments] but not Scriptural laws.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Both cases mentioned here are Rabbinical. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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