LekhoriLekhoriProne to physically assaulting one's wife.
The Mishnah's mention of injuries inflicted on a woman by a man can refer to an assailant outside the family and to inadvertent assault, but the phrase surely includes a wife-beating husband, too.
Alternative form of wifebeating.
However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.
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