📜 Daily Chumash & Rashi – Parshas Ki Seitzei Chamishi: Miscellaneous Mitzvos

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Chamishi

1. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
   • Feeding workers on the job: When a worker comes to harvest the grapes, he may eat from it as he desires, but he may not fill up vessels with it. Likewise, when a worker comes to harvest the grains, he may eat from it with his hands, but he may not cut it with a sickle.
   • Divorce: When a man takes a woman in marriage, and he dislikes her due to discovering a shameful matter, then he is to write her a bill of divorce. She is to leave his home and may marry another man. If the other man hates her and also divorces her, or if he dies, her first husband may not remarry his ex-wife, being she became defiled with another man. This is an abomination to Hashem.

 

Q&A on Rashi

 

📘 Rashi Q&A — Devarim 23:25–24:4

Devarim 23:25–26 — A Worker’s Right to Eat

23:25

Q1. Who is the Torah speaking about when it says, “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard”?

1. A worker employed in the vineyard.

Q2. What may the worker do?

1. Eat grapes while working.

Q3. How much may he eat?

1. As much as he desires until he is satisfied.

Q4. What limitation exists?

1. He may not eat excessively.

Q5. May he put grapes into his own container?

1. No.

Q6. What does this prohibition teach?

1. He may eat while working but may not take produce away for later.

Q7. During what type of work does this right apply?

1. During harvesting, when grapes are being gathered.

Q8. Does a worker performing other tasks in the vineyard receive this privilege?

1. No.

 

23:26

Q9. What similar law applies in a grain field?

1. A worker may pluck grain by hand while working.

Q10. What may he not do?

1. Use a sickle on his employer’s grain.

Q11. Who is the verse addressing?

1. A worker laboring in the field.

 

📘 Devarim 24:1–4 — Divorce and Remarriage

24:1

Q12. When is divorce discussed in this passage?

1. When a husband finds an objectionable moral matter in his wife.

Q13. According to Rashi, what must he do in such a case?

1. Divorce her.

Q14. Why?

1. Because such conduct should not be overlooked.

 

24:2

Q15. What happens after the divorce?

1. The woman leaves and marries another man.

Q16. Why does the Torah say “another man”?

1. To contrast him with the first husband.

Q17. How does Rashi explain the contrast?

1. The first husband sent her away, whereas the second accepted her.

 

24:3

Q18. What may happen in the second marriage?

1. The second husband may divorce her or die.

Q19. What lesson does Rashi draw from the phrase “if the latter husband hates her”?

1. Scripture indicates that he too may eventually come to hate her.

Q20. What alternative outcome is mentioned?

1. The second husband may die.

 

 

24:4

Q21. May the first husband remarry her after she married someone else?

1. No.

Q22. Why is this forbidden?

1. The Torah calls it an abomination.

Q23. What additional case is derived from the phrase “since she was defiled”?

1. A sotah who secluded herself with another man becomes prohibited to her husband pending resolution of her status.

Q24. What broader principle is emphasized?

1. Certain relationships, once altered by Torah-defined events, cannot simply return to their previous status.