以利亚问出缘由：白衣之日他与妻同食同寝，故受罚；末解作同床而不相触、或系腰围隔着。
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又极勤服事众通 妥拉 的人，何以在半途上死了呢？
and served Torah scholars extensively, why did he die at half his days?
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经上所应许他的「日子长久」在哪里呢？
Where is the length of days promised him in the verse?
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无人应她这一问。
No one would respond to her astonishment at all.
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以利亚说：有一回我在她家作客，她把她丈夫死的那一段事从头讲说。
Eliyahu said: One time I was a guest in her house, and she was relating that entire event with regard to the death of her husband.
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我对她说：我的女儿，你月经的日子里，他待你怎样？
And I said to her: My daughter, during the period of your menstruation, how did he act toward you?
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她对我说：断乎没有的事，他连小指头也不曾碰过我。
She said to me: Heaven forbid, he did not touch me even with his little finger.
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我又问她：你穿白衣的日子——就是经血已止、单在数那几个洁净之日的时候——他待你又怎样？
And I asked her: In the days of your white garments, after the menstrual flow ended, and you were just counting clean days, how did he act toward you then?
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她对我说：他与我同食、与我同饮、与我同寝而身子相触；只是那另一件事，他心里从未起过意。
She said to me: He ate with me, and drank with me, and slept with me with bodily contact and, however, it did not enter his mind about something else, i.e., conjugal relations.
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我就对她说：那位无所不在的主是当称颂的，他因这一罪取了他的命——你丈夫没有以敬待 妥拉。
And I said to her: Blessed is the Omnipresent who killed him for this sin, as your husband did not show respect to the Torah.
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妥拉 说：「在妇人污秽隔离的时候，不可亲近她」（利未记 18:19）——连亲昵相触也是禁的。
The Torah said: “And to a woman in the separation of her impurity you should not approach” (Leviticus 18:19), even mere affectionate contact is prohibited.
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革玛拉 述说：拉夫迪米 从 以色列地 下到巴比伦时说：那门生并不是与她同寝而身子相触；乃是同在一床上睡而不相触。
The Gemara relates that when Rav Dimi came from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia, he said: That student did not actually sleep with her with bodily contact; rather, it was in one bed that they slept without contact.
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在西边、就是 以色列地，他们说 拉夫以撒·巴尔·约瑟 说：他们同床而卧时，她自腰以下系着一条 腰围，隔在他与她之间。
In the West, in Eretz Yisrael, they say that Rav Yitzḥak bar Yosef said: When they would sleep together in one bed, she wore a belt [sinar] from the waist down that would separate between him and her.
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饶是如此，那事既是禁的，那门生仍受了罚。
Nevertheless, since the matter is prohibited, that student was punished.