Yevamos 66a

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Yevamot 66a

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Topic

Whether women are commanded in פרו ורבו; the end of פרק הבא על יבמתו; and the opening of פרק אלמנה לכהן גדול: why a forbidden wife's עבדי מלוג do not eat תרומה.

Overview

The amud opens with the last word of a story about the twin daughters of רבי חייא's wife. The גמרא then asks whether women are really exempt from פרו ורבו, pointing to a case where the court forced a master to free a half-slave woman. רב נחמן בר יצחק answers that she was freed because men were treating her loosely. The chapter הבא על יבמתו then ends, and the chapter אלמנה לכהן גדול begins. Its משנה rules that when a woman is in a forbidden marriage to a כהן, her עבדי מלוג do not eat תרומה, but her עבדי צאן ברזל do. In a valid marriage all her slaves eat, and a בת כהן married to a ישראל loses תרומה for all her slaves. The גמרא asks why the עבדי מלוג should not eat as 'his acquisition that acquired an acquisition.' It gives three answers: רבינא's rule that only a קנין who eats can let others eat, רבא's rabbinic decree meant to push toward divorce, and רב אשי's decree aimed at a כהנת widow who might wrongly think she can go back to her father's תרומה. The amud ends by opening a new question about appraised property (שום), and רב יהודה's answer continues on the next amud.

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The steps (21)

1. StatementEnd of the story: the twins were sisters
2. ChallengeAre women really not commanded to have children?
3. ResolutionShe was freed because of improper conduct
4. ConclusionHadran — Closing פרק הבא על יבמתו
5. StatementNew chapter: which slaves of a forbidden wife eat תרומה
6. StatementDefining the two kinds of slaves a wife brings in
7. StatementValid marriages: a ישראל woman to a כהן, and a כהן's daughter to a ישראל
8. ChallengeWhy shouldn't the wife's מלוג slaves eat?
9. ProofThe ברייתא source: a כהן's acquisition that acquires also eats
10. ResolutionWhoever eats can let others eat; whoever does not eat cannot
11. ChallengeChallenge from an uncircumcised כהן and impure כהנים
12. ResolutionTheir mouths simply hurt
13. ChallengeChallenge from a ממזר
14. Resolutionרבינא: the rule is about a קנין
15. Resolutionרבא: Torah allows it, but the רבנן stopped it to push toward divorce
16. Resolutionרב אשי: a decree so she won't feed them after her husband dies
17. ChallengeThen every בת ישראל married to a כהן should be included
18. Resolutionרב אשי refines: the worry is a כהן's daughter who thinks she can go back
19. ChallengeWhat about a widow who is a בת ישראל?
20. ResolutionThe רבנן made one rule for all widows
21. QuestionItems back or their value? A new question about appraised property