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פרק ד משנה ח
המוציא את אשתו  

One who divorces his wife

משום אילונית

because he believes her to be barren

רבי יהודה אומר

Rabbi Yehuda says

לא יחזיר

he may not remarry her

וחכמים אומרים

and the Sages say

 יחזיר

he may remarry her.

נשאת לאחר

If she marries another

 והיו לה בנים

and has children (thus showing that she is not barren)

 והיא תובעת כתובתה

and she now demands her kesuba (which was previously denied to her on the basis of her having been barren)

אמר רבי יהודה

Rabbi Yehuda says

אומרים לה 

we say to her

שתיקותיך

your silence

יפה ליך מדיבוריך

is better than your words (as this argument may lead to the divorce being voided as it was based on her ex-husband's erroneous assumption that he would not have to pay the kesuba).

 

 

פרק ד משנה ט
המוכר את עצמו

One who [on multiple occassions] sells himself

ואת בניו

and his children

לגוי

to a gentile

אין פודין אותו

we do not redeem him

אבל פודין את הבנים

but we do redeem his children

לאחר מיתת אביהן

after the death of their father (to prevent their assimilating).

המוכר שדהו לגוי

One who sells his field to a gentile

לוקח ומביא ממנו 

must purchase and bring from it

ביכורים

bikkurim

מפני תקון העולם

for the public good (i.e. to discourage selling the land of Eretz Yisroel to non-Jews).

   

NOTES

משנה ח

רבי יהודה אומר לא יחזיר - He forecloses any possibility of remarriage so that, if she were to remarry and have children, we don't want the first husband to claim that the divorce was void as being based on a mistake, thus aspersing her children's legitimacy.

 

משנה ט

 

There is an alternate גירסא for the second part of this משנה that reads as follows:

המוכר שדהו לגוי

One who sells his field to a gentile

וחזר ולקחה ממנו ישראל

and a Jew buys it back from him

הלוקח מביא ממנו ביכורים

the purchaser must bring bikkurim from it (even on the fruit that had ripened while under the ownership of the non-Jew

מפני תקון העולם

for the public good (by showing that the land retains its kedusha even while in the posession of non-Jews we hope to encourage Jews to buy it back).

 

 

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