Translation:Mishnah/Seder Nashim/Tractate Kiddushin/Chapter 4/12

Note edit

In the Vilna edition of the Mishnah, this text is given as mishnah 13. The mishnah 12 of the Vilna edition appears here as mishnah 11.

Introduction edit

Hebrew Text edit

לא ילמד רווק סופרים,
ולא תלמד אישה סופרים.
רבי אלעזר אומר:
אף מי שאין עימו אישה לא ילמד סופרים.

English Translation edit

A bachelor should not practice pedagogy,
and a woman should not practice pedagogy.
Rabbi Elazar says:
Even one who does not have a wife with him should not practice pedagogy.


Explanation edit