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Negative commandment · Lo Ta’aseh #39 of 613

For a woman not to wear articles appropriate for men

שלא תעדה אישה עדי איש

Parashat Ki Teitzei כי־תצא · Sefer HaChinuch #542

The verse · Devarim 22:5

לֹא־יִהְיֶה כְלִי־גֶבֶר עַל־אִשָּׁה וְלֹא־יִלְבַּשׁ גֶּבֶר שִׂמְלַת אִשָּׁה כִּי תוֹעֲבַת ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ כׇּל־עֹשֵׂה אֵלֶּה

“A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination to the Lord thy God.”

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The Rambam’s words

For a woman not to wear articles appropriate for men, as [Deuteronomy 22:5] states: "A woman should not wear a man's clothing."

שלא תעדה אישה עדי איש, שנאמר "לא יהיה כלי גבר על אישה" (דברים כב,ה).

Why · Sefer HaChinuch #542

That a woman should not wear the adornments of a man

“It is from the roots of the commandment [that it is] to distance our holy nation from matters of sexual immorality and any matter and any angle whatsoever that contains a stumbling block towards it — as the matter that they, may their memory be blessed, said metaphorically (Sanhedrin 106a) that our G-d hates promiscuity.”

Who & when

“And it is practiced in every place and at all times, by females.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations הלכות עבודה זרה וחוקות הגויים

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