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Yevamos 22b

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Yevamot 22b

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Topic

The full brother and son status of a ממזר, and whether a sister who is also the father's wife's daughter brings one חיוב or two.

Overview

The amud finishes the earlier point that a ממזר brother also creates the bond of יבום. It then explains the משנה's words 'he is his brother in all respects': he inherits, and a כהן may become impure for him. That is true even though a כהן may not become impure for an unfit wife, because a wife is meant to be sent away but a brother stays a brother. A brother from a שפחה or a גויה does not count at all, because the child follows the mother. Any son, even a ממזר, frees his father's widow from יבום, learned from 'ובן אין לו'. A ממזר son is punished for hitting his father when the father has done תשובה, even though his sin can never be fully fixed. Then a ברייתא brings an argument between the רבנן and רבי יוסי ברבי יהודה: does a sister who is also his father's wife's daughter bring two חיובים or one? Along the way the amud teaches אין מזהירין מן הדין, and that a half-sister counts only if her mother could legally marry the father. רבא's teaching shows that a sister born to an אנוסה still counts.

Opening lines

מִיזְקָק נָמֵי זָקֵיק.

He also creates the levirate bond.

וְאָחִיו הוּא לְכׇל דָּבָר.

And he is his brother in every respect.

לְמַאי הִלְכְתָא?

For which law is this said?

לְיוֹרְשׁוֹ וְלִיטָּמֵא לוֹ.

To inherit from him, and to become impure for him.

The steps (35)

  1. ConclusionA ממזר brother also creates the levirate bond
  2. QuestionWhat does 'his brother in all respects' add?
  3. ResponseHe inherits, and a כהן becomes impure for him
  4. ChallengeIsn't that obvious?
  5. ResolutionWe might have compared him to an unfit wife
  6. ChallengeMaybe the comparison is correct
  7. ResolutionA wife can be sent away, but a brother stays a brother
  8. StatementThe exception: a brother from a maidservant or a gentile woman
  9. QuestionAsking for the reason behind the exception
  10. ResponseThe child follows the mother
  11. StatementA son of any kind frees the widow
  12. QuestionWhat does 'of any kind' add?
  13. ResponseIt includes a ממזר son
  14. ProofSource: 'ובן אין לו' means check carefully
  15. StatementThe ממזר son is punished for hitting his father
  16. ChallengeWhy protect a father who sinned?
  17. ResolutionThe father did תשובה
  18. ChallengeCan a father of a ממזר really do תשובה?
  19. ResolutionAt least now he acts like a proper member of the people
  20. StatementSister who is also father's wife's daughter: one חיוב or two?
  21. QuestionWhat is the רבנן's source?
  22. ResponseThe extra פסוק teaches a second חיוב
  23. Responseרבי יוסי: 'She is your sister' limits it to one חיוב
  24. QuestionWhat do the Rabbis do with 'she is your sister'?
  25. ResponseThe Rabbis use it to teach that we do not punish from a קל וחומר
  26. Challengeרבי יוסי: 'your sister' alone would be enough, so 'she is' teaches the limit
  27. ResolutionRabbis: 'she is' is still needed for a general rule
  28. ResolutionWhy 'your sister' alone would not teach the rule
  29. Challengeרבי יוסי asks why the words were not written in the other verse
  30. QuestionWhat does רבי יוסי learn from 'daughter of your father's wife'?
  31. ResponseThe sister's mother must be a woman the father could marry
  32. ChallengeWhy not exclude a sister from a raped woman?
  33. Resolutionרבא's teaching rules out that reading
  34. Proofרבא's contradiction between two verses about granddaughters
  35. ResolutionOne verse speaks of rape, the other of marriage