יִיחוּד

יִחוּד, יִיחוּדm. (preced. wds.) 1) private meeting, esp. privacy between man and woman. Y.Keth.XI, beg.34a דברים שליי׳ private attendance, e. g. assistance at washing and ointing. Y.Sot.I, 16c top אין זה י׳ this is no ascertained private meeting (with her former husband, on account of which a second letter of divorce would be required). Snh.21a, sq. גזרו על הי׳ ועלוכ׳ they forbade privacy (with a married woman) and with a single woman. Ib. י׳ דאורייתא הוא is not privacy with a married woman biblically interdicted?Kidd.81a מלקין על הי׳ … משום הי׳ we punish private meetings between a man and a woman, but we do not prohibit the wife to her husband on account of her private meeting with a man. Ib. בעלה בעיר אין חוששין משום י׳ if her husband is in town, we do not consider her private meeting with a man a suspicious act; a. fr.בְּיִ׳ a) privately. Bets.22b; Pes.37a שאילית את רבי בי׳ I asked my teacher privately.b) particularly, exactly; by a special sign. Shek. VI, 2; Yoma 54a. 2) (later Hebr.) י׳ השם declaration of the unity of God. Pesik. Zutr., Nitsabim, end.(Gen. R. s. 99, end כיחודו של עולם, read: כיחידוֹ, v. יָחִיד.