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Yevamos 57b

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Yevamot 57b

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Topic

Does חופה alone disqualify a woman who is פסולה לכהונה? The מחלוקת of רב and שמואל, the case of a girl under three, and רמי בר חמא's link to the משנה.

Overview

The גמרא finishes a מחלוקת between רב and שמואל. רב holds that a חופה by itself, without ביאה, counts for women who are unfit to marry a כהן. שמואל holds that it does not count. שמואל adds that רב agrees with him about a girl younger than three years and one day: her ביאה has no legal meaning, so her חופה has none either. רבא backs this up with a ברייתא that lists all the legal effects of ביאה with a girl who is three years and one day old. From that ברייתא he infers that a girl who can be disqualified through ביאה can be disqualified through חופה, and a younger girl cannot be disqualified by either. Finally, רמי בר חמא says the main question of חופה לפסולות is the same as the argument in the משנה between רבי מאיר on one side and רבי אלעזר and רבי שמעון on the other.

Opening lines

יֵשׁ חוּפָּה לִפְסוּלוֹת.

There is [significance to] chuppah for unfit women.

וּשְׁמוּאֵל אָמַר:

And Shmuel said:

אֵין חוּפָּה לִפְסוּלוֹת.

There is no [significance to] chuppah for unfit women.

אָמַר שְׁמוּאֵל: וּמוֹדֶה לִי אַבָּא

Shmuel said: And Abba agrees with me

The steps (5)

  1. Statementרב and שמואל disagree about חופה with unfit women
  2. Statementשמואל says רב agrees about a girl under three
  3. Proofרבא brings a ברייתא about a girl of three years and a day
  4. ConclusionSame age rule for intercourse and wedding canopy, proven
  5. StatementLinking the canopy question to the dispute in the משנה