Yevamos 76b

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How do we know the Torah's ban on Amoni and Moavi spares their women? The Gemara tells of Doeg challenging David's fitness to enter the kahal because of Rus, until Yisra HaYisraeli brought a kabbalah from the beis din of Shmuel. The Brisker Rav explains Ploni Almoni's fear for his children: he took Amoni v'lo Amonis for a drasha that a later beis din could overturn, not a halacha l'Moshe miSinai.

Key points

• The Mishnah bars Amoni and Moavi forever, but not their women.
• Doeg questions whether David may enter the kahal, since David descends from Rus.
• The Gemara darshens the Torah's reason: the men, not the women, went out to greet with bread and water.
• In one reading, Yisra's kabbalah from Shmuel's beis din was a halacha l'Moshe miSinai.
• The Brisker Rav holds Ploni Almoni knew the halacha but took it for an overturnable drasha.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Mishnah of Amoni and Moavi
2. 1:34Shaul asks about David
3. 9:13Doeg's question on David
4. 17:28Yisra HaYisraeli and his sword
5. 21:47Why the women did not go out
6. 23:27Ben amasecha in Hillel
7. 25:33Ploni Almoni's fear for his children
8. 27:55Drasha versus halacha l'Moshe miSinai

Topics

• Amoni v'lo Amonis
• David HaMelech
• Megillas Rus