Yevamos 113a

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Yevamot 113a

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Topic

Marriages of a חרש and חרשת: תרומה, כתובה, and אשם תלוי

Overview

The amud opens with the last words of an earlier answer: men would avoid marrying a חרשת if she could do מיאון forever. The גמרא then compares a קטנה and a חרשת, whose marriages are both only מדרבנן. A קטנה married to a כהן eats תרומה, but a חרשת does not. This is explained through a chain of גזירות: a חרש might feed a פקחת wife, and from תרומה דרבנן he could slide into תרומה דאורייתא. Next, a קטנה has a כתובה but a חרשת does not, so that men will not avoid marrying her. The גמרא brings a משנה and a ברייתא as sources. A פקחת married to a חרש also gets no כתובה, because women want to marry even more than men do. רבא praises רב מלכיו for giving a חרש's wife a כתובה from the חרש's own property, since a wife helps him even more than a maidservant. Then שמואל rules about an אשם תלוי for relations with a חרש's wife, in two versions. Both versions are built on רבי אלעזר's view that a חרש's acts are a ספק. The amud ends with רב אשי asking for רבי אלעזר's reason, and his question continues on the next amud.

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The steps (30)

1. ResolutionPeople would avoid marrying her
2. ChallengeWhy can a minor eat תרומה but a deaf-mute woman cannot?
3. ResolutionA decree: a deaf-mute husband might feed a deaf-mute wife
4. ChallengeSo what? She is like a minor eating forbidden food
5. ResolutionA decree: a deaf-mute husband might feed a competent wife
6. ChallengeLet her at least eat rabbinic תרומה
7. ResolutionHe might end up feeding her Torah-level תרומה
8. QuestionWhy does a minor get a marriage contract but a deaf-mute woman does not?
9. ResponseMen would refuse to marry her
10. QuestionWhat is the source that a minor gets a marriage contract?
11. ResponseA משנה shows that a minor who is divorced has a marriage contract
12. QuestionWhat is the source that a deaf-mute woman has no marriage contract?
13. ResponseA ברייתא about deaf-mute and imbecile marriages
14. ConclusionIf he did not choose to write one, she gets nothing
15. ChallengeWhy not give a כתובה to a woman who marries a deaf man?
16. ResolutionWomen want to marry even more than men do
17. Statementרב מלכיו marries off a deaf neighbor with a כתובה
18. Statementרבא praises רב מלכיו's wisdom
19. StatementNo אשם תלוי for the wife of a deaf man
20. ProofA possible support from the משנה about תרומה
21. Rejectionשמואל follows רבי אלעזר, who treats a חרש's תרומה as doubtful
22. ChallengeThen the man should bring a guilt-offering for uncertainty
23. ResolutionA guilt-offering for uncertainty needs the case of one piece out of two
24. Challengeרבי אלעזר requires a guilt-offering even for a כוי
25. Resolutionשמואל agrees with רבי אלעזר on one point and disagrees on another
26. StatementAnother version: שמואל requires an אשם תלוי for the wife of a deaf-mute
27. ChallengeChallenge from the rule that five people may not separate תרומה
28. Resolutionשמואל follows רבי אלעזר
29. Questionרב אשי asks for רבי אלעזר's reason
30. QuestionFirst possibility: a weak mind that may still be clear