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בפתח עינים. שנתנה פתח לדבריה כדאית' במס' סוטה שאמרה יתומה אני פנויה אני פי' כשנשאתי לבניו ואיני כלתו: בפתח עינים, this expression may be understood as we know from the Talmud, tractate Sotah folio,10, where Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachmeni understands it as giving a reason for her apparently inappropriate behaviour, when Yehudah first asked her about her personal status; she said that she was not married, was a widow, that she was ritually pure, and quite unattached to any other man when she had married, and that even then she was not anyone’s daughter-in-law. [The marriage had not been consummated. Ed.]