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VERSE: Dt22-05a

RASHIS COVERED: Dt22-05a Dt22-05b

============== ALIGNMENT OF MALE-FEMALE DRESS LAWS ==============

 BACKGROUND
 ----------
 The Torah prohibits men from wearing womens clothes and similary
 prohibits women from wearing mens clothes. The law prohibits
 ---dress interchange among genders
 ---small item interchange among genders (eg weapons,jewelry)
 The law also prohibits
 ---female activities among men (Eg plucking out white hairs)
 ---shaving armpits (and or pubic hair) by men


 THE TEXT
 --------
 A woman should not have on a male-utensil
 A man should not dress in a female garment*10

 THE RASHI
 ---------
 Rashi derives some prohibitions from an ALIGNMENT of the
 two verse halves while other prohibitions are derived
 from a requirement of GENERALIZING the specific laws
 to ALL SITUATIONS where gender-item-interchange could
 facilitate sin.*11

 Here is the ALIGNMENT list. In this posting we study
 --laws EXPLICITLY mentioned in the verse
 --laws GENERALIZABLE from these explicit laws
   Since the two verse halves are in the same verse therefore
   we are justified in transferring all details of each half
   to both genders
 We however do not study
 --laws generalizable because of the REASON in the verse
   These other generalizable laws will be discussed in
   posting http://www.RashiYomi.Com/dt24-06c.htm in this
   same issue (Volume 11 Number 11)
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VERSE     PHRASE1  PHRASE2        PHRASE3     PHRASE4
=======   =======  ==========     =======     ==================
Dt22-05   A woman  should not     have on     a male utensil
Dt22-05   A man    should not     dress       a female garment
Differs   *1       *2             *3          *4

NOTES
=====
*1 This verse lists prohibitions on BOTH men and women

*2 This phrase is identical. What follows are PROHIBITIONS

*3 In prohibiting male-female-item interchanges the
   Torah prohibits
   ---COMPLETE opposite-gender items like GARMENTS
   ---PARTIAL opposite-gender items like TRINKETS

*4 In prohibiting male-female-item interchanges the
   Torah prohibits
   --- GARMENTS
   --- UTENSILS (e.g. Trinkets, Weapons, etc)*12

------------------ LONGER FOOTNOTES -------------------------

*10 The above ALIGNMENT leaves out many interesting items
    such as the different orders
    ------------------------------------------------
    A women should not let male garments BE ON HER
    A mean should not DRESS female garments
    ------------------------------------------------
    Notice how in one phrase the verse ends with the
    verb while in the other phrase the verb is in
    the middle of the verse

*11 In other words we are separating the derivations on
    this verse into two parts: One derivation comes from
    the ALIGNMENT of the two parshas while the other derivation
    comes from the PROCESS of generalization because a REASON
    was given to the law (which requires GENERALIZING the law
    to all cases to which the reason applies)

*12 My approach is that the prohibition of
    --women wearing weaponry is derived from the
      EXPLICIT BIBLICAL PHRASE,
      ------------------------------------------
      Women should not wear MALE UTENSILS
      ------------------------------------------

    --men wearing jewelry is ALSO derived from the
      EXPLICIT BIBLICAL PHRASE, MALE-UTENSILS
      Indeed, the principle of GENERALIZATION requires
      us to prohibit
      --FEMALE DRESSES on men (explicitly said) & vice versa
      --MALE TRINKETS on women(explicitly said) & vice versa

    That is, it is the process of ANALOGY which requires that
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    Just as FEMALES cannot wear MALE-UTENSILS (eg Weapons) so too
    MEN cannot wear FEMALE-UTENSILS (i.e. jewelry)
    ------------------------------------------------------------

    In applying this generalization we are requiring
    transferring items from each verse half (So DRESSES are
    prohibited to men and SIMILARLY SUITS are prohibited to
    WOMEN; WEAPONS (MALE UTENSILS) are prohibited to women
    and SIMILARLY JEWELRY (Female utensils) are prohibited to
    MEN.))
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