Yevamos 60a

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Yevamot 60a

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Topic

A כהן גדול and women who are not full בתולות, the child's status as a חלל, and when a כהן becomes טמא for his sister

Overview

The amud opens with the end of רב הונא's reading of a ברייתא: a כהן גדול who married the woman he himself raped or seduced must divorce her, and 'he is married' only means he does not pay the קנס. רב אשי challenges this from רב and רבי יוחנן's ruling about a בוגרת and a מוכת עץ, since she would end up that way under him anyway, and the challenge stays a קשיא. Next, the ברייתא says a כהן גדול may not marry another man's אנוסה or מפותה. If he did, רבי אליעזר בן יעקב says the child is a חלל and the חכמים say the child is כשר, and רב rules like רבי אליעזר בן יעקב. One version links his view to רבי אלעזר, but that runs into a difficulty. So רב אשי explains that they argue whether breaking only a positive commandment makes a חלל, and the גמרא shows how each side reads the word ״אֵלֶּה״ in ויקרא 21:14. Finally, a new ברייתא asks when a כהן becomes טמא for his sister: engaged, forced or seduced, a מוכת עץ, or a בוגרת. The גמרא works through how רבי מאיר and רבי יהודה, and then רבי יוסי and רבי שמעון, read ״וְלַאֲחוֹתוֹ הַבְּתוּלָה״. It begins to question the second reading, and that question continues on the next amud.

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The steps (32)

1. StatementHe does not pay the fine of a seduced woman
2. Challengeרב אשי objects from the case of a grown woman and one injured by wood
3. ChallengeShe would end up that way under him anyway
4. ConclusionThe challenge stands
5. StatementAnother man's raped or seduced woman: is the child a חלל?
6. Statementרב rules like רבי אליעזר בן יעקב
7. ConclusionA second report of the same ruling
8. StatementA second version: רבי אליעזר בן יעקב agrees with רבי אלעזר
9. ChallengeBut the הלכה always follows רבי אליעזר בן יעקב and not רבי אלעזר
10. ConclusionThe difficulty stands
11. Statementרב אשי: the argument is whether a positive commandment makes a חלל
12. ProofThe source: "he shall not profane his seed" refers to all of them
13. ProofThe רבנן: the word ״these″ ends the list
14. Resolutionרבי אליעזר בן יעקב: ״these″ comes to exclude a נדה
15. QuestionWhose view does this ברייתא follow?
16. ResponseIt follows רבי אליעזר בן יעקב
17. ChallengeThen the תורה should have put ״these″ at the end
18. ConclusionThe question stays difficult
19. StatementDoes a כהן become טמא for his engaged sister?
20. StatementA sister who was forced or seduced
21. Statementרבי שמעון: she must be fit for a כהן גדול
22. StatementA grown sister: everyone agrees he becomes טמא
23. QuestionWhat is the source for רבי מאיר and רבי יהודה?
24. ResponseThe word 'virgin' leaves out a sister who was forced or seduced
25. ResponseA sister who lost her virginity by accident is still included
26. Response'Who is near' includes an engaged sister, and 'to him' includes a בוגרת
27. ChallengeWhy does רבי מאיר need a פסוק to include a בוגרת?
28. ResolutionThe פסוק is needed to block a גזירה שוה from the כהן גדול
29. QuestionWhat is the source for רבי יוסי and רבי שמעון?
30. Response'Who has had no man' leaves out an engaged sister
31. Response'Who is near' includes a divorced ארוסה, and 'to him' includes a בוגרת
32. ChallengeThe גמרא repeats 'who is near' to question it