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Yevamos 71b

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Yevamot 71b

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Topic

Babies who become fit for מילה between the slaughter and the eating of the פסח; an ערל receiving הזאה; and the מצוה of פריעה

Overview

This amud continues the search for a baby boy who is not yet fit for מילה when the קרבן פסח is slaughtered but becomes fit by the time it is eaten. A baby who recovers from illness waits seven full 24-hour periods (מעת לעת), so his wait can end in the middle of the day. A teaching from the sage of לוד seems to say otherwise, but the גמרא explains that the healing day is stricter than the birth day. רב פפא, רבא, רב כהנא and רב שרביא each give another case: a sore eye that heals, parents freed from prison, a טומטום found to be a boy, and a baby whose head came out before the rest of his body. The גמרא defends רב שרביא's case: either the mother's fever kept the baby alive, or a crying baby can live. Next, רבי יוחנן rules that an ערל can be purified by הזאה, and proves it from the Jews in יהושע's time, who were sprinkled before their מילה and brought the פסח in טהרה. רב then teaches that פריעה was not given to אברהם, learning it from the words ״שוב״ and ״שנית״ in יהושע. The amud ends by asking why the Jews did not do מילה in the מדבר; one answer is the weakness from the journey, and the second answer comes on the next amud.

Opening lines

מֵעֵת לְעֵת.

From time to time.

וְהָתָנֵי לוּדָאָה:

But the sage from לוד taught:

יוֹם הַבְרָאָתוֹ כְּיוֹם הִוָּלְדוֹ.

The day of his healing is like the day of his birth.

מַאי לָאו:

Doesn't that mean:

The steps (27)

  1. StatementRecovery days are counted as full 24-hour periods
  2. ChallengeChallenge from the teaching of the sage from לוד
  3. ResolutionThe healing day is stricter than the birth day
  4. Resolutionרב פפא's case: a baby with a sore eye
  5. Resolutionרבא: The Parents Were in Prison
  6. Resolutionרב כהנא: A טומטום Found to Be a Boy
  7. Resolutionרב שרביא: Only the Head Came Out
  8. ChallengeCan Such a Baby Even Stay Alive?
  9. ResolutionA fever kept the half-born baby alive
  10. QuestionWhose fever was it?
  11. ResponseIt was the mother's fever
  12. ResolutionSecond answer: a crying baby can live
  13. StatementAn uncircumcised man may receive sprinkling
  14. ProofWhy the פסוק proves the point
  15. ChallengeMaybe they never brought the פסח
  16. ResolutionThe פסוק says they did bring the פסח
  17. ChallengeMaybe their פסח was brought in טומאה
  18. ResolutionA ברייתא says they brought it in purity
  19. StatementUncovering at circumcision was not given to אברהם
  20. ChallengeMaybe it was only those never circumcised
  21. ResolutionThe word 'again' points to uncovering
  22. QuestionWhat does 'a second time' add?
  23. Response״שנית״ compares the end of a מילה to its beginning
  24. ProofA משנה lists the shreds that make a מילה incomplete
  25. StatementMost of the height of the עטרה
  26. QuestionWhy no מילה in the מדבר?
  27. ResponseFirst answer: too weak from traveling