Noun
sotah (uncountable)
(Judaism) An ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.
Rabbinic literature main According to the Rabbinic literature, Isaiah was a descendant of the royal house of Judah and Tamar ( Sotah 10b). Source: Internet
The examples include the "trial of the accused adulteress (Sotah)", the "Law of the Breaking of the Neck of the Heifer" and the application of the death penalty for the "rebellious child". Source: Internet
The Babylonian Talmud (see at Sotah 20-21) describes one who fails to do so as a chasid shoteh, a foolishly pious individual. Source: Internet
Tosefta (Sotah 13:1); cf. Babylonian Talmud (Kereithot 5b) This was said to have been done in order to prevent their being carried off into Babylon as had already happened to the other vessels. Source: Internet