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Yevamos 57a

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Yevamot 57a

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Topic

Whether a woman married or betrothed to a כהן who is a פצוע דכא may eat תרומה: אביי and רבא's reasons, and רבי יוחנן's question about a בת גרים, settled by a ברייתא.

Overview

The גמרא asks whether a woman betrothed to a כהן who is a פצוע דכא may eat תרומה. A proof from רבי אלעזר and רבי שמעון is rejected, because a פצוע דכא may not marry a woman born Jewish, and whether he can feed a בת גרים was a question רבי יוחנן asked and never got answered. אביי and רבא each show a case where he does have power to feed: a wife he married before the injury, or his Canaanite slaves. Then each explains why he rejects the other's proof. The גמרא next tells the story of רבי יוחנן's question to רבי אושעיא, who stayed silent and said it had no solution. The question cannot fit רבי יהודה (she never eats) or רבי יוסי (she always eats), so it must follow רבי אליעזר בן יעקב: does a Jewish-born mother give her daughter only fitness, or full holiness? A ברייתא brought by רבי אחא בר חיננא shows that she gains only fitness, so she eats. The amud ends as a new dispute opens with רב.

Opening lines

הָא נָמֵי אָכְלָה.

this one may also eat.

מִמַּאי?

From where do you know this?

דִּלְמָא עַד כָּאן לָא קָאָמְרִי

Perhaps they only said it

רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר וְרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן הָתָם,

Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Shimon, there,

The steps (25)

  1. ProofSo this woman also eats
  2. RejectionThe comparison fails: he cannot feed anyone else
  3. RejectionMarrying a convert's daughter does not help
  4. Resolutionאביי: he can feed a wife he has not yet been with
  5. Resolutionרבא: he can feed his Canaanite slaves
  6. RejectionWhy אביי does not accept רבא's proof from slaves
  7. RejectionWhy רבא does not accept אביי's proof
  8. Challengeאביי's challenge: then a priest's widow should also eat
  9. Resolutionרבא answers: death ends the marriage, injury does not
  10. StatementThe story of רבי יוחנן's unanswered question
  11. Questionרבי יהודה נשיאה asks why רבי יוחנן got no answer
  12. Responseרבי אושעיא: the question has no answer
  13. QuestionAccording to whose view was the question asked?
  14. ResponseAccording to רבי יהודה, she cannot eat either way
  15. ProofIf he is still a full priest, a convert's daughter is like a חלל's daughter
  16. ProofAccording to רבי יהודה, she also cannot eat if he lost his holiness
  17. ResponseAccording to רבי יוסי, she eats either way
  18. ProofIf he keeps his holiness, she eats, because a convert's daughter can marry a כהן
  19. ProofIf he lost his holiness, she eats, because converts are not called קהל
  20. ResponseThe question follows רבי אליעזר בן יעקב
  21. QuestionThe real question: did she gain fitness or holiness?
  22. ProofA ברייתא from the south about a פצוע דכא and a daughter of converts
  23. QuestionWhose view is this ברייתא? Not רבי יהודה and not רבי יוסי
  24. ConclusionThe ברייתא follows רבי אליעזר בן יעקב: the mother adds only fitness
  25. StatementA new dispute begins with רב