Translation:Mishnah/Seder Nashim/Tractate Kiddushin/Chapter 4/11
Note
[edit]In the Vilna edition of the Mishnah, this text is given as mishnah 12. The mishnah 11 of the Vilna edition appears here as the second part of mishnah 10.
Introduction
[edit]Hebrew Text
[edit]- לא יתייחד איש אחד עם שתי נשים,
- אבל אישה אחת מתייחדת עם שני אנשים.
- רבי שמעון אומר:
- אף איש אחד מתייחד עם שתי נשים.
- ובזמן שאשתו עימו, ישן עימהן בפונדקי,
- מפני שאשתו משמרתו.
- מתייחד אדם עם אימו ועם בתו,
- וישן עימהם בקרוב בשר.
- הגדילו,
- זה ישן בכסותו, וזה ישן בכסותו.
English Translation
[edit]- A man may not be secluded with two women,
- but a woman may be secluded with two men.
- Rabbi Shimon says:
- Even a man may be secluded with two women.
- And when his wife is with him, he may sleep with them in an inn,
- because his wife is with him.
- A person may be secluded with his mother or with his daughter,
- and may sleep with them in bodily contact.
- When they grow up,
- this one should sleep in his cover, and this one should sleep in his cover.