To not sell one of beautiful of form: To not sell one of beautiful form after the one who desired her had intercourse once with her. And about this is it stated (Deuteronomy 21:14), “And it shall be if he does not want her, he shall send her away for herself, and he shall certainly not sell her for money.”
It is from the roots of the commandment to teach ourselves good and precious traits. And I have already written in many places that a precious soul is fit to receive goods and upon it will blessing always descend, and that the good God desired to crown His people with every lovely and refined trait. And there is no doubt that to sell the woman after they lay with her in their laps is from the traits of the wanton and most lowly. The matter is well-known and it is not to be elaborated. And the content of the one of beautiful form, some of its laws and the place of their elucidation in the Gemara and the time that the law of the one of beautiful form was practiced — all of it is written in its positive commandment in this Order (Sefer HaChinukh 532).
שֶׁלֹּא לִמְכֹּר יְפַת תֹּאַר – שֶׁלֹּא לִמְכֹּר יְפַת תֹּאַר אַחַר שֶׁיָּבוֹא עָלֶיהָ הַחוֹשֵׁק בָּהּ בִּיאָה אַחַת, וְעַל זֶה נֶאֱמַר (דברים כא יד) וְהָיָה אִם לֹא חָפַצְתָּ בָּהּ וְשִׁלַּחְתָּהּ לְנַפְשָׁהּ וּמָכֹר לֹא תִמְכְּרֶנָּה בַּכָּסֶף.
To not sell one of beautiful of form: To not sell one of beautiful form after the one who desired her had intercourse once with her. And about this is it stated (Deuteronomy 21:14), “And it shall be if he does not want her, he shall send her away for herself, and he shall certainly not sell her for money.”
מִשָּׁרְשֵׁי הַמִּצְוָה. לְלַמֵּד נַפְשֵׁנוּ מִדּוֹת טוֹבוֹת וִיקָרוֹת, וּכְבָר כָּתַבְתִּי בְּהַרְבֵּה מְקוֹמוֹת כִּי הַנֶּפֶשׁ הַיְּקָרָה, רְאוּיָה לְקַבֵּל הַטּוֹבוֹת וְעָלֶיהָ יָחוּלוּ הַבְּרָכוֹת לְעוֹלָם, וְכִי חָפֵץ הָאֵל בְּטוֹב עַמּוֹ הִכְתִּירָם בְּכָל מִדָּה חֲמוּדָה וּמְהֻדֶּרֶת, וְאֵין סָפֵק כִּי מִמִּדַּת הַנְּבָלִים הַפְּחוּתִים בְּתַכְלִית לִמְכֹּר הָאִשָּׁה אַחַר שֶׁהִשְׁכִּיבוּהָ בְּחֵיקָם, יָדוּעַ הַדָּבָר, אֵין לְהַאֲרִיךְ בּוֹ. וְעִנְיַן יְפַת תֹּאַר וּקְצָת דִּינֶיהָ וּמְקוֹם בֵּאוּרָן בַּגְּמָרָא, וְהַזְּמַן שֶׁדִּין יְפַת תֹּאַר נוֹהֵג הַכֹּל כָּתוּב בְּמִצְוַת עֲשֵׂה שֶׁלּוֹ בְּסֵדֶר זֶה (מצוה תקלב).
It is from the roots of the commandment to teach ourselves good and precious traits. And I have already written in many places that a precious soul is fit to receive goods and upon it will blessing always descend, and that the good God desired to crown His people with every lovely and refined trait. And there is no doubt that to sell the woman after they lay with her in their laps is from the traits of the wanton and most lowly. The matter is well-known and it is not to be elaborated. And the content of the one of beautiful form, some of its laws and the place of their elucidation in the Gemara and the time that the law of the one of beautiful form was practiced — all of it is written in its positive commandment in this Order (Sefer HaChinukh 532).