The Rashi Study Bible

8 [The rationale of the juxtaposition of the verses that follow: If you fulfill the command of sending away the mother bird, in the end, you will build a new house and fulfill the command of making a parapet, (for one command brings another in its train), and you will attain to a vineyard, and a field, and beautiful garments.] When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof [he deserves to fall (in terms of God’s judgment) notwithstanding which, let his falling not be occasioned by you, (merit being occasioned by the meritorious one, and liability by him who is liable)]. Bava Metzia 101b:18 GEMARA:   The Sages taught  in a  baraita : If  one rents out a house to another,  the landlord bears the responsibility to install doors for it, to open windows  in its walls to provide light  for it, to strengthen its ceiling,  and  to support its  cross  beam. And the renter bears t

Various Laws 22 If someone guilty of a capital offense [the rationale of the juxtaposition: If the rebellious son is pitied by his parents, in the end he will become corrupt and commit transgressions for which he will be sentenced to death by the court], is put to death and their body is exposed [i.e., his body, after stoning] on a pole, Rashi’s Commentary If someone guilty of a capital offense —The juxtaposition of these sections (this and that of the rebellious son) tells us that if father and mother spare him (the rebellious son), he will in the latter end turn to mischief and commit sins for which he will become liable to the death penalty by the court (cf. Midrash Tanchuma, Ki Tetze 1). Sifrei Devarim 221:1 If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole —A man is hanged (i.e., suspended after death) and not a woman. R. Eliezer says: A woman, too, is hanged. 23 you must not leave the body hanging on the pole o

Marrying a Captive Woman 10 When you go to war [an optional war (as opposed to an obligatory war)] against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives [including Canaanites in their midst, even if they be of the seven nations], Rashi’s Commentary When you go to war — Scripture is speaking here of a war that is not obligatory upon the Israelites (Sifrei Devarim 211:1), for in regard to a war that was waged against the inhabitants of the land of Israel, Scripture could not possibly say, “and you take captives,” since it has already been stated regarding them, (Deu 20:16) “from the cities of the nations . . . do not leave alive anything that breathes.” And you take captives — These apparently redundant words are intended to include Canaanite people living in it (in a city outside Canaan), that it is allowed to capture them although they belong to the seven nations (Sifrei Devarim 211:4; Sotah 35b). Sifrei Devarim 211: