Translation:Mishnah/Seder Nashim/Tractate Kiddushin/Chapter 2/7
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Introduction
[edit]Hebrew Text
[edit]- המקדש אישה ובתה
- או אישה ואחותה
- כאחת —
- אינן מקודשות.
- מעשה בחמש נשים,
- ובהן שתי אחיות,
- וליקט אחד כלכלה של תאנים;
- משלהן הייתה, ובשביעית הייתה;
- אמר להן, "הרי כולכם מקודשות לי בכלכלה זו,"
- וקיבלתה אחת מהן על ידי כולן.
- אמרו חכמים: אין האחיות מקודשות.
English Translation
[edit]- One who betroths a woman and her daughter
- or a woman and her sister
- simultaneously —
- they are not betrothed.
- [There was] an incident with five women,
- among them two sisters,
- and one [man] gathered a basket of dates;
- it belonged to them, and it was in the sabbatical year;
- he said to them, "All of you are betrothed to me with this basket,"
- and one of them accepted it on behalf of all of them.
- The sages said: The sisters are not betrothed.
Explanation
[edit]they are not betrothed: In each case, a Biblical prohibition prevents the women from being betrothed sequentially.