What are the connotations of "Ki Yesischa Achicha"?
Rashi: It means 'When your brother incites you'. 1
Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It means 'When your brother offers you bad advice'.
Chulin, 4b: S'tam Hasasah includes eating and drinking 2 - 'When yur brother incites you whilt eating and drinking with you'.
Rashi in Menachos, 39b: The word 'Hasasah' is always used in a negative sense. See also Rashbam, who cites Iyov, 2:3 and Melachim 1, 21:25.
See Torah Temimah, note 14.
Why does the Torah write "Achicha ben Imecha"?
Rashi: It actually refers to two people - 'Your paternal or your maternal brother'. 1
R. Bachye, Targum Yonasan and Kidushin, 80b: A maternal brother - and how much more so a paternal brother (who hates his brother 2 and who therefore deliberately offers him bad advice - Kidushin ).
Da'as Zekenim and Hadar Zekenim: Because he is closer to a person 3 since they both came from the same womb. 4
Harei Besamim : Because if he would be a close paternal relative 5 he would be Pasul to testify, and would automtically disqualy the other witnesses - in which case the enticer could not be sentenced to death. 6
Kidushin, 80b: It hints at Isur Yichud - that a man may only be secluded with his mother, but not with any of the other Arayos. 7
See Sifsei Chachamim.
R. Bachye: Since each one reduces the other's share in their father's inheritance..
Rosh: As the Pasuk writes in Shir ha'Shirim 8:1 "Mi Yitencha ke'Ach Li Yonek Sh'dei Imi".
Da'as Zekenim and Hadar Zekenim: See note 1 on answer #2.
The Rema (in Choshen Mishpat 33:2) citing the Ramban explains that maternal relatives are only disqualified from testifying mi'de'Rabanan.
And by the same token, "Bincha" must be referring to the son of your daughter.
Based on the fact that the Torah writes "ba'Seiser" - See Torah Temimah, note 15.
Why does the Torah refer to a wife as "Eishes Cheikecha"?
Oznayim la'Torah: Because a woman who wants to control her husband - to coerce him to go against his better judgement, does so by taking advantage of their intimate relationship - as we find with Shimshon and Delilah. 1
See Oznayim la'Torah.
"O Re'echa asher ke'Nafsh'cha". Who is "Re'echa referring to?
Why does the Torah insert the (otherwise superfluous) words "asher ke'Nafshcha"?
What will be the Din if relatives that are not listed entice a person to serve Avodah-Zarah?
The Torah lists the most common cases and the same will apply to those that are less common.
What is the significance of the fact that the Meisis speaks "be'Seiser" (in secret)?
Oznayim la'Torah: Since he refuses to speak openly, it is necessary to hide the two witnesses that are required to testify against him in Beis-Din - something that is not permitted anywhere ealse.
Seeing as the Torah writes "be'Seiser", what will be the Din in the event that the inciter works openly?
Rashi: The Torah only inserts the word "be'Seiser" because that is the way inciters generally operate, 1 but not to preclude one who operates openly.
Da'as Zekenim (citing the Bechor Shor): The Torah inserts "be'Seiser" to negate the notion that, based on the Pasuk in Mishlei 11:13 "Holech Rachil Megaleh Sod", one should not inform Beis-Din of the Meisis' incitement. So the Torah teaches us that it is forbidden to cover up for him! 2
Rashi: As the Pasuk in Mishlei, 7:9 indicates.
What is the sinificance of the words "Asher Lo Yada'ata "?
Rashi and R. Bachye #1: To pour scorn upon Yisrael, who drop so low, since even Nochrim do not abandon the god that their fathers handed down to them.
R. Bachye: "Atah" applies to those who aquired Emunah via their own wisdom; "va'Avosecha", to those who acquired it via tradition, which is not fool-proof, seeing as they are not personally convinced, and can easily be drawn away to believe in other gods. 1 2
Like a line of blind people holding one on to another, and the one in front is holding to a person who can see; they are walking on a straight path only because of the person who can see, but they do not know for sure that they are. See R. Bachye.
R. Bachye: Hence the Mishnah states in Avos 2:19 ?Hevei Shakud Lilmod Torah ve'Da Mah sheTashuv le'Apikores!'
