Yevamos 110a

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Yevamot 110a

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Topic

רב and שמואל on a קטנה who grew up, the נרש story, and a new משנה on freeing a צרה when the widows are minors or deaf

Overview

The amud opens in the middle of a dispute between רב and שמואל about a girl married as a קטנה who grew up, after which another man married her. The גמרא explains that the case is one where the first husband lived with her after she grew up. שמואל still holds the marriage is only rabbinic, because כל הבועל על דעת קידושין הראשונים הוא בועל. The גמרא asks why רב and שמואל argue about this again, since they already disagree about קידושין made on a condition. It answers צריכא: each case was needed. Then a story from נרש seems to show that רב's students did not require the husband to live with her. רב פפא answers that in נרש living together came before the bridal chair. רב אשי answers instead that the רבנן cancelled the snatcher's קידושין, and the ruling follows רבי אליעזר. A new משנה teaches when יבום or חליצה with one widow frees her צרה, depending on whether the wives are minors, deaf, or fully competent. The גמרא asks how a deaf woman can do חליצה at all. רבא distinguishes a woman deaf from the start from one who became deaf later, and אביי begins an objection to רבא that continues on the next amud.

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The steps (22)

1. QuestionDid the first husband live with her after she grew up?
2. RejectionNo, he did live with her
3. ChallengeThen why does שמואל disagree?
4. ResolutionHis relations rely on the original קידושין
5. ChallengeThey already argued about this
6. ChallengeLaying out the reasons to show it is the same argument
7. ResolutionBoth disputes were needed
8. ChallengeThe Neresh story seems to contradict רב
9. ResolutionIn נרש they live together before the bridal chair
10. ResolutionThe רבנן cancelled the snatcher's קידושין
11. ChallengeWhat if he was מקדש with relations?
12. ResolutionThe רבנן made his act זנות
13. ConclusionThe הלכה follows רבי אליעזר
14. StatementNew משנה: two minor orphans, two deaf wives, or one of each
15. StatementMixed pairs: the stronger wife's release frees the weaker one
16. ChallengeCan a deaf woman even do חליצה?
17. Resolutionרב: the משנה means relations, not חליצה
18. Resolutionרבא: deaf from the start versus deaf later
19. ResolutionWhy being deaf from the start makes a difference
20. Challengeאביי questions whether a woman deaf from the start can do חליצה
21. ChallengeThe quoted משנה continues with the reverse case
22. Challengeאביי argues the משנה is about a woman deaf from the start