Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Pesachim 149:20

התם נמי כתיבא שריפה לבסוף דכתיב

Surely in respect of a priest's daughter [who committed adultery], though it is written, she shall be burnt with fire,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXI, 9.');"><sup>10</sup></span> R'Mattenah said: They made a lead wick for her?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Sanh. 52a.');"><sup>11</sup></span> - There it is different, because the Divine Law said, 'she shall be burnt with fire': 'she shall be burnt' is to include all burnings which come from fire, then all the more fire itself! [If so] let us surround her with bundles of faggots and burn her? - The meaning of 'burning' is learnt from the children of Aaron: just as there it was a burning of the soul while the body remained intact, so here burning of the soul while the body remains intact [is meant].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Sanh. 52a.');"><sup>12</sup></span> Then let us prepare for her boiling water [heated] by the fire?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., let us execute her by scalding.');"><sup>13</sup></span> - [That is ruled out] on account of R'Nahman' [s dictum]. For R'Nahman said, Scripture saith, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XIX, 18.');"><sup>14</sup></span> choose an easy death for him. Now, since there is R'Nahman['s deduction], what is the purpose of the gezerah shawah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. I.e., the derivation from the sons of Aaron. it. Nahman's dictum in itself excludes also burning by faggots.');"><sup>15</sup></span> - I will tell you: But for the gezerah shawah, I would say [that] the burning of the soul while the body remains intact is not burning,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that the only alternative left is burning by faggots.');"><sup>16</sup></span> while as for R'Nahman's [teaching], let us use many bundles of faggots for her, so that she should die quickly. Therefore it [the gezerah shawah] informs us [that it is not so]. Then what is the purpose of '[she shall be burnt] with fire'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since after all the verse is taken to include all burnings which come from fire.');"><sup>17</sup></span> - It is to exclude [boiling] lead [drawn straight] from its source. R'Jeremiah said to R'Zera: Then wherever 'she shall be burnt with fire' is written, it is to include all burnings which are produced by fire? Surely in respect to the [sacrificial] bullocks which were burnt, though it is written, and the [the priest] shall burn it on wood with fire,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. IV, 12.');"><sup>18</sup></span> it was nevertheless taught: 'With fire,' but not with boiling lime or boiling gypsum? - Said he to him, How compare! There 'with fire' is written [first] and 'she shall be burnt' after: [hence] it is to include all burnings which are produced by fire;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the addition of 'she shall be burnt', after 'with fire' has already been stated, it is superfluous.');"><sup>19</sup></span> [whereas] here is written, and he shall burn it on wood with fire,' 'with fire' being at the end, to intimate that fire on [is permitted], but not anything else. But there too burning is written at the end, for it is written,

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