Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Quotation for Kiddushin 163:1

הכל לשם שמים:

All [is to be done] for the sake of Heaven.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To show my affection for my daughter's little girl.');"><sup>1</sup></span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>AN UNMARRIED MAN MUST NOT BE AN ELEMENTARY TEACHER,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [The text is difficult. Rashi takes it as an elliptical phrase 'An unmarried man shall not train himself to be a teacher of children; Krauss, T.A. p. 217, suggests: An unmarried man shall not teach as assistant to the Bible teacher; v. also Low, L. Gesammelte Schriften III. p. 17, n. 1.]');"><sup>2</sup></span> NOR MAY A WOMAN BE AN ELEMENTARY TEACHER'R'ELEAZAR SAID: ONE ALSO WHO HAS NO WIFE MUST NOT BE AN ELEMENTARY TEACHER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is discussed in the GEMARA:');"><sup>3</sup></span> R'JUDAH SAID: AN UNMARRIED MAN MUST NOT TEND CATTLE, NOR MAY TWO UNMARRIED MEN SLEEP TOGETHER UNDER THE SAME COVER,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'cloak'.');"><sup>4</sup></span>

Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer

We do not suspect Jewish men of lying with another man or with beasts. Therefore, we do not prohibit them from being alone with them, and if one wants to distance themselves from men or beasts, it is a praiseworthy thing. For the great sages (of old) used to keep beasts at a distance in order that they would not be alone with them. But in these generations because such corrupt people exist one should (therefore) try not be alone with a man.
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