Yevamos 13b

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Yevamot 13b

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Topic

The צרה of an ערוה: the end of the משנה, the sources for בית שמאי, and whether differing practices break לא תתגודדו

Overview

The משנה finishes the מחלוקת between בית שמאי and בית הלל about the צרה of an ערוה. It explains what happens to her fitness for כהונה after חליצה or יבום. It adds that the two schools still married into each other's families and relied on each other in טהרות. The גמרא gives רבי שמעון בן פזי's source for בית שמאי from the word ״החוצה״, and the two schools trade readings of ״חוצה״, ״לאיש זר״ and the extra ה. רבא then offers a different reason for בית שמאי: אין איסור חל על איסור, which works whichever brother married first. The גמרא explains why the משנה needed its lines about חליצה and יבום, pointing to רבי יוחנן בן נורי's proposal. Finally, ריש לקיש asks רבי יוחנן whether different מגילה reading days break לא תתגודדו, 'do not form separate groups'. Their back-and-forth about ערב פסח leads to the visible dispute over the צרות, which continues on the next amud.

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The steps (31)

1. StatementResults of חליצה or יבום for the co-wife
2. StatementThe two schools still married each other and shared purity
3. ProofThe source for בית שמאי's view
4. Resolutionבית הלל use the פסוק for something else
5. Statementרב's law: קידושין by an outsider do not take effect on a יבמה
6. Resolutionבית שמאי explain how they read the word ״חוּצָה״
7. Resolutionבית הלל say ״חוּצָה״ means the same as ״לַחוּץ״
8. ProofA ברייתא proves that a ה at the end means 'to'
9. QuestionWhere do בית שמאי learn רב's rule?
10. Responseבית שמאי learn it from ״לְאִישׁ זָר״
11. ChallengeThen בית הלל should also learn it from ״לְאִישׁ זָר״
12. ResolutionYes, and ״חוּצָה״ teaches that an ארוסה needs יבום
13. ResponseEach side and the extra letter ה
14. Statementרבא: one prohibition cannot fall on another
15. ChallengeWhat if the living brother married first?
16. ResolutionThen she is an ערוה with no מצוה at all
17. ChallengeWhy does the משנה need to say the חליצה ruling?
18. ResolutionThe line rejects רבי יוחנן בן נורי's proposal
19. ChallengeWhy does the משנה also need the יבום ruling?
20. ResolutionSaid only to match the חליצה line
21. StatementA משנה from מגילה about the days to read the מגילה
22. Challengeריש לקיש asks whether different reading days split the nation into groups
23. ChallengeThe verse seems to be about cutting for the dead
24. ResolutionThe longer word form shows an extra lesson
25. ChallengeMaybe the whole verse is only about groups
26. ResolutionThe verse teaches both lessons
27. Resolutionרבי יוחנן points to different local customs on ערב פסח
28. Rejectionריש לקיש rejects the proof: פורים is a rule, not a custom
29. ChallengeWork on ערב פסח is also a real prohibition
30. ResolutionNot working does not look like a separate group
31. ChallengeThe visible dispute about צרות