Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Yevamot 50:14

אמרו ליה רבנן לרב אשי גמרא או סברא אמר להו מתני׳ היא הנטען משפחה ונשתחררה מעובדת כוכבים ונתגיירה הרי זה לא יכנוס ואם כנס אין מוציא אלמא

married her<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The woman who was forbidden to her husband or the one divorced (v. previous note). ');"><sup>35</sup></span> must he part from her? R. Kahana said: Though he married, he must part from her. R. Ashi said: Once he has married, he need not part from her. R. Zuti at the School of R. Papa recited [a teaching] in accordance with the opinion of him who said that if he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Sage referred to in our Mishnah (Rashb. and Asheri). The Sage or the man who delivered a letter of divorce mentioned in the previous Mishnah (Rashi and Maimonides). V. Wilna Gaon, Glosses, a.l. ');"><sup>34</sup></span> married her<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The woman who was forbidden to her husband or the one divorced (v. previous note). ');"><sup>35</sup></span> he need not part from her. Said the Rabbis to R. Ashi: Is this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The statement R. Ashi made. ');"><sup>36</sup></span> a tradition or a matter of opinion? He answered them: It is a Mishnah: If a man is suspected of intercourse with a slave who was subsequently emancipated, or with a heathen who subsequently became a proselyte, lo, he must not marry her; if, however, he did marry her the marriage need not be dissolved. Which proves

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

Adam had been created and placed in Gan Eden in order לעבדה ולשמרה "to work and preserve it" (Genesis 2,15). The mystical dimension of the word לעבדה, is עבודה service of the Lord. He himself was meant to be the "service" or, as we expressed this later the "offering." He was a "living sacrifice." While alive in a body, he was supposed to be what the souls of the righteous are nowadays after they have left this earth and their bodies behind and when the archangel Michael offers their souls on the Celestial Altar. In an ideal world the attachment to G–d expressed by the word קרב would have existed during man's lifetime. Man is supposed to be close to this image of himself since man on this earth was created in the image of the אדם who sits on the "throne" in the Celestial Regions, the mystical dimension of אצילות. The domain of the אצילות is the domain from which unification with the אין סוף is possible. I have explained this process in my introduction to the chapter תולדות האדם.
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