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Yevamos 67b

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Yevamot 67b

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Topic

Whether an עובר's possible share stops a dead כהן's slaves from eating תרומה, and a new משנה on connections that disqualify a woman from תרומה but cannot make her eligible.

Overview

A כהן died and left a pregnant widow. The question is whether his slaves may still eat תרומה, since if the עובר is a boy he owns a share of them. The גמרא gives two ways to explain רבי שמעון, who lets the slaves eat. Either he ignores the minority chance that the עובר is a living boy, or בית דין uses רב נחמן's rule to give the עובר a share without slaves. Next comes רבי ישמעאל ברבי יוסי, who says a daughter lets the slaves eat but a son does not. אביי first explains this as a small estate, נכסים מועטים, but רבי יוחנן's ruling knocks that down. So the גמרא rereads 'daughter' as the mother herself, and says the whole ברייתא is רבי ישמעאל ברבי יוסי's. A new משנה then lists five connections, among them the עובר, the יבם and אירוסין, that take a בת כהן away from תרומה but cannot let a בת ישראל eat it. The גמרא starts explaining each item from a פסוק, and the explanation of אירוסין continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

אֵין חוֹשְׁשִׁין לְמִיעוּטָא.

We are not concerned about the minority.

וְאִיבָּעֵית אֵימָא:

And if you wish, say:

לְעוֹלָם קָסָבַר חוֹשְׁשִׁין לְמִיעוּטָא,

actually he holds that we are concerned about the minority,

דְּעָבְדִינַן לֵיהּ תַּקַּנְתָּא

but we make an arrangement for it,

The steps (23)

  1. ResolutionFirst explanation: we do not worry about the minority
  2. ResolutionSecond explanation: an arrangement keeps the slaves out of the fetus's share
  3. Statementרב נחמן in the name of שמואל: a guardian divides the estate for orphans
  4. Statementרב נחמן's own view: the division is final
  5. QuestionIs רב נחמן's rule a dispute between תנאים?
  6. RejectionNo: everyone accepts רב נחמן, and the argument is about the minority
  7. Statementרבי ישמעאל ברבי יוסי: a daughter lets the slaves eat, a son does not
  8. ChallengeWhy should the fetus's share block a son but not a daughter?
  9. Resolutionאביי: a small estate, with both a son and a daughter
  10. ChallengeThe end of the ברייתא does not fit a small estate
  11. ResolutionThe end clause is about a large estate
  12. ChallengeDoes a small estate really belong to the daughters?
  13. ResolutionThe 'daughter' in the ברייתא is really the mother
  14. ChallengeThen this is the same as רבי יוסי
  15. ResolutionThe whole ברייתא belongs to רבי ישמעאל ברבי יוסי
  16. Statementמשנה: five who disqualify but cannot make her eligible
  17. StatementDoubtful age and doubtful maturity
  18. StatementHouse collapse: who died first?
  19. StatementAn unborn baby disqualifies a כהן's daughter from תרומה
  20. StatementAn unborn baby cannot let a בת ישראל eat תרומה
  21. StatementA יבם who is a ישראל disqualifies a כהן's daughter
  22. StatementA יבם who is a כהן cannot let a בת ישראל eat
  23. StatementBetrothal to a ישראל disqualifies a כהן's daughter