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benignuman –

The same posuk that the Gemara understands to be discussing the revealing of shok, also discusses the revealing of hair as a source of shame. Why then doesn’t Rav Sheshesh use the same posuk to dervie “saar b’isha erva”?

You only have this kasha because of your hanacha that there is such a thing as ervah outside of hirhur. According to me that the whole ervah thing is not absolute and it is entirely dependent on hirhur, it is pashut why the Gemara chose to bring an asmachta from Shir Hashirim and not from Yeshaya:

In Yeshaya it happens to use the word ervah, but it has nothing to do with hirhurim, so the pasuk as it relates to us is really nothing more than a siman – it says the word shok and it says the word ervah. Shir Hashirim is a much better place to bring an asmachta from, because it is all about hirhurim. Since hair and voice are mentioned in Shir Hashirim, we don’t need to run to other places. The shok of a woman is not mentioned in Shir Hashirim, therefore we have to resort to an obscure siman l’davar.

My pshat is not the simplest but I do think that it is the least dochek.

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