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DEUTERONOMY — 13:7 incite

Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUT
Page(s): 98
DEUT622 R. Yochanan said in the name of R. Shimon b. Yehotzadak: Where is the prohibition against being alone with those who are sexually forbidden intimated in the Torah? "If there shall incite you your brother, the son of your mother." Now does the son of the mother incite, and not the son of the father? The verse, then, is an illusion to the halachah that a son may be alone with his mother, but [otherwise] it is forbidden to be alone with those who are sexually forbidden (Kiddushin 80b)

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DEUTERONOMY — 13:9 inclined

Torah Book & Portion, Book of Deuteronomy, Re'eh (Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17), Source Book Keys, TEMIMAH-DEUT
Page(s): 99
DEUT625 Because it is written (Leviticus 19:18): "And you shall love your neighbor as yourself," I might think that you should love this, one, too; it is, therefore, written: "You shall not be inclined towards him." Or I might think, because it is written (Exodus 23:5): "Unload shall you unload [an animal] with him," that you should unload for this one, too; it is, therefore, written: "and you shall not hearken to him" (Sifrei).

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