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Mishnayos Eruchin Perek 3 Mishnah 4

ערכין פרק ג׳ משנה ד׳

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There are halakhot with regard to a rapist and with regard to a seducer that are lenient and others that are stringent; how so? Both one who raped or seduced a young woman who is the most prominent in the priesthood and one who raped or seduced a young woman who is the lowliest among the Israelites gives the payment of fifty sela, the fine stated in the Torah (see Deuteronomy 22:29). And the payments for humiliation and for degradation resulting from being raped or seduced are assessed differentially; it is all based on the one who humiliates and the one who is humiliated.

בָּאוֹנֵס וּבַמְפַתֶּה לְהָקֵל וּלְהַחֲמִיר. כֵּיצַד. אֶחָד שֶׁאָנַס וּפִתָּה אֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה שֶׁבַּכְּהֻנָּה וְאֶת הַקְּטַנָּה שֶׁבְּיִשְׂרָאֵל, נוֹתֵן חֲמִשִּׁים סֶלַע. וְהַבּשֶׁת וְהַפְּגָם, הַכֹּל לְפִי הַמְבַיֵּשׁ וְהַמִּתְבַּיֵּשׁ:

ד׳
Bartenura

פגם – they estimate how much a person wants to give whether for a virgin maid-servant or a maid-servant who has already had sexual relations to marry her off to his male servant that he has gratification/satisfaction from.

לפי המבייש ומהתבייש – a disgraced person who is bashful, and the one upon whom the indignity is inflicted, according to the importance of his embarrassment (see also Tractate Ketubot, Chapter 3, Mishnah 7).

פגם. שמין כמה אדם רוצה ליתן בין שפחה בתולה לשפחה בעולה להשיאה לעבדו שיש לו קורת רוח הימנו:

לפי המבייש והמתבייש. אדם נקלה שבייש, בשתו מרובה. והמתבייש, לפי חשיבותו בשתו: