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Yevamos 76a

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Yevamot 76a

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Topic

Damage to the male organ and marriage into the קהל; a wounded כהן and marrying a נתינה

Overview

This amud continues the laws of a man whose organ was damaged, which can bar him from marrying into the קהל. רב פפי insists that semen which does not exit through its proper place cannot cause conception. שמואל rules that a hole at the עטרה which healed closed makes the man unfit only if an emission would tear it open again. The גמרא then discusses how to test this, and a ברייתא adds that once such a hole closes, the man becomes fit again. אביי gives a remedy to help a small hole heal. רבא rules that the הלכה follows neither רבה בר רב הונא, who disqualified a man who urinates from two places, nor his father רב הונא, who disqualified נשים המסוללות from marrying a כהן. A new משנה teaches that a פצוע דכא and a כרות שפכה may marry a convert or a freed maidservant. The גמרא then asks about a wounded כהן. That leads to a debate over why a wounded man may marry a נתינה and whether marriage with gentiles takes effect at all. The debate continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

מִמּוּלָאֵי, אָמְרִיתוּ מִילֵּי מוּלְיָתָא?

From the 'cut-short' family, you say 'cut-short' words?

בִּמְקוֹמָהּ — מְבַשְּׁלָה,

In its place, it causes conception;

שֶׁלֹּא בִּמְקוֹמָהּ — לָא מְבַשְּׁלָה.

not in its place, it does not cause conception.

אָמַר רַב יְהוּדָה אָמַר שְׁמוּאֵל:

Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said:

The steps (32)

  1. Rejectionרב פפי rejects a lenient view: semen outside its place cannot cause conception
  2. Statementשמואל's rule on a hole that healed closed
  3. Questionרבא asks where the hole is located
  4. ResponseThe hole is at the corona itself
  5. ProofA second report of שמואל confirms רבא's reading
  6. QuestionHow do we test whether the closure holds?
  7. Responseרב יוסף's method using warm barley bread
  8. Rejectionאביי: no special method is needed
  9. Responseאביי suggests colored clothing instead
  10. Rejectionרבא: not everyone is ברזילי
  11. ConclusionBack to the first method
  12. StatementA punctured member makes him unfit, and closing it makes him fit
  13. QuestionWhat does the word 'this' exclude?
  14. ResponseIt excludes a membrane on a lung
  15. QuestionHow do we heal the hole?
  16. Responseאביי's healing remedy
  17. StatementTwo limits on the remedy
  18. StatementUrinating from two places makes him unfit
  19. Conclusionרבא: the הלכה follows neither son nor father
  20. StatementEven רבי אלעזר would not call such a woman a זונה
  21. Statementמשנה: Wounded men may marry a convert or a freed maidservant
  22. QuestionWhat about a כהן with crushed testicles?
  23. Responseרב ששת proves from a ברייתא that the injury removes his holiness
  24. Rejectionרבא: The verse is about idolatry, not holiness
  25. ResolutionThe ban on converted נתינים is only rabbinic, and only for men who can have children
  26. ChallengeChallenge: then a ממזר should be forbidden to marry a נתינה
  27. ResolutionThe decree covers only people of proper lineage
  28. Rejectionרבא retracts: the verse must speak of after conversion
  29. Challengeרב יוסף: שלמה 'married' בת פרעה
  30. ResolutionHe converted her first
  31. ChallengeBut converts were not accepted in the days of דוד and שלמה
  32. ResolutionThe reason was fear of converts seeking the king's table