What is the significance of "Motze Ani Mar mi'Maves Es ha'Ishah"?
Torah Temimah citing Yevamos 63b: In Eretz Yisrael, when someone gets married, they say to him, Matza or Motze? If the Kalah is proper, "Matza Ishah Matza Tov" (Mishlei 18:22); if not, "Motzei Ani Mar
Why does it say "Asher Hi Metzodim"?
Ibn Ezra: Metzodim is from the root "Tzayid" (Bereishis 10:9). Its grammatical form is like "Meromim" (Yeshayah 33:16).
R. Yonah (Mishlei 6:24): Once one gazes at a woman, he is caught in her Metzodah (trap). Man sees his heart's desire, and does not see his end. A foolish dove in the Midbar sees the grain, but not the trap.
Metzudas David: She is a trap 1 to trap those who accept her enticement.
Metzudas Tziyon: Metzodim is like "Metzodah Ra'ah" (9:12).
In what sense is "Charamim Libah"?
Rashi: This is an expression of a trap (Rid - for fish), like "Yegorehu v'Chermo v'Ya'asfehu b'Michmarto" (Chabakuk 1:15).
Ibn Ezra: Charamim is a net, like "Mishtach Charamim" (Yechezkel 26:5). At every moment, an [evil] woman's heart and thoughts are only to spread traps to catch people.
R. Yonah (Mishlei 6:24): When she desires a man in her heart, he will stumble with her even if he does not desire her. His bad Mazal caused her to desire him.
Seforno: Her heart is traps to draw a man via strategies of enticement from the ways of life to the opposite - anyone who talks too much with a woman, causes evil to himself. He is Batel from Divrei Torah, and in the end he inherits Gehinom (Avos 1:5).
Metzudas David: Men are caught via her heart's thoughts.
Why does it say "Asurim Yadeha"?
Rashi citing Menachem: When she holds a man, it is as if he is tied in thick ropes. "Asurim" is a noun (ropes), like "va'Yimasu Esurav me'Al Yadav" (Shoftim 15:14).
Ibn Ezra, Rashbam: Her hands are like a jail. R. Yonah (Mishlei 6:24) - if she holds him in her hands, he is incarcerated; there is no solution for him.
R. Avigdor 1 , from Koheles Rabah: A Mashal for this is a dog that used to bite people. The owner made a chain for it, and even so it bit people. Had it not written "Asurim Yadeha 2 ", she would go to the market and grab a man by his garment and tell him to be intimate with her - "va'Tispesehu b'Vigdo Leimor Shichvah Imi" (Bereishis 39:12).
Seforno: After he began to be enticed, it is as if he is tied and forced to do her will, like happened with Ba'al Pe'or (Sanhedrin 106a; Jews desired Bnos Midyan, and agreed to defecate in front of Ba'al Pe'or in order to have Bi'ah with them).
Why does it say "Tov Lifnei ha'Elokim Yimalet Mimenah"?
Rashbam: He will not fall in her hands. Because she is compared to traps, it discusses escaping from her - "Nafshenu k'Tzipor Nimletah mi'Pach Yokeshim
Really, it is one more. (PF)
How is "v'Chotei Yilached Bah"?
Ibn Ezra: In her trap. Ri Kara - a sinner approaches her, and is caught in her [trap]. Metzudas David - once he is trapped, it is impossible to separate from her to save himself.
R. Avigdor: The Gematriya of "v'Chotei Yilached Bah" equals that of b'Gehinom 1 . The Gemara 2 says that she is tied to him like a dog. This is why below, it says "v'Oz Panav Yeshune" (8:1; a dog is brazen).
Seforno: He inherits Gehinom via her counsel.
Really, it is one more. (PF)
Sotah 3b: [Any] sin clings to a person like a dog. We learn from "v'Lo Shama Eleha Lishkav Etzlah Lihyos Imah" (Bereishis 39:10). Moshav Zekenim (ibid.) - one who had Bi'ah with a Nochris, she is tied to him in the world to come.
