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Yevamos 76b

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Yevamot 76b

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Topic

שלמה's marriage to פרעה's daughter, and which converts from עמון, מואב, מצרים and אדום may marry into the קהל

Overview

The amud opens by finishing a discussion about שלמה marrying פרעה's daughter. She was a first-generation מצרית, and a ברייתא about מנימין the Egyptian convert shows that this ban still applied. רב פפא answers that שלמה never truly married his foreign wives. The פסוק says ״ויתחתן״ only because he loved her so much. Next, רב אשי shows רבינא that the משנה about a פצוע דכא can't prove anything about a נתינה, because its beginning and end imply opposite things. A new משנה then teaches that male עמוני and מואבי converts are banned forever, but their women are permitted right away. מצרי and אדומי converts are banned for three generations, and רבי שמעון permits their women immediately as a received הלכה. The גמרא finds the source in the story of שאול asking about דוד's lineage. There אבנר answers דואג with עמוני ולא עמונית, and the בית המדרש confirms this הלכה. The answer to דואג's last question comes on the next amud.

Opening lines

הָא לָא צְרִיכָא לֵיהּ.

But this one did not need such things.

[וְתִיפּוֹק לֵיהּ] דְּהָא מִצְרִית רִאשׁוֹנָה הִיא!

But let him derive it from the fact that she is a first-generation Egyptian!

וְכִי תֵּימָא: הָנָךְ אָזְלִי לְעָלְמָא

And if you would say: those went off into the world,

וְהָנֵי אַחֲרִינֵי נִינְהוּ,

and these are other people,

The steps (35)

  1. Resolutionפרעה's daughter had no need to convert for gain
  2. ChallengeShe was a first-generation Egyptian anyway
  3. ResolutionA suggested escape: today's Egyptians are different people
  4. Rejectionמנימין the Egyptian convert shows the ban still applied
  5. Resolutionרב פפא: שלמה never truly married any of them
  6. ChallengeThe word "and he married" remains difficult
  7. ResolutionHis great love made the verse call it a marriage
  8. Challengeרבינא's challenge: the משנה implies a פצוע דכא may not marry a נתינה
  9. Rejectionרב אשי: the end of the same משנה implies the opposite
  10. StatementNew משנה: male עמוני and מואבי converts are forbidden forever, but their women are permitted right away
  11. StatementEgyptian and Edomite converts are forbidden for three generations
  12. Statementרבי שמעון permits the women right away
  13. Proofרבי שמעון's logical argument from עמון and מואב
  14. RejectionThe חכמים: a tradition we accept, logic we can answer
  15. Responseרבי שמעון: I am stating a tradition
  16. QuestionWhat is the source?
  17. Responseרבי יוחנן brings שאול's question about דוד
  18. ChallengeBut שאול knew דוד well
  19. ResolutionHe was asking about דוד's father
  20. ChallengeBut everyone knew ישי
  21. Resolutionשאול was asking whether דוד came from פרץ or זרח
  22. QuestionWhy did שאול tell אבנר to inquire about דוד
  23. Responseשאול's clothes fit דוד
  24. Challengeדואג questions whether דוד may even marry into the Jewish people
  25. Resolutionאבנר: the ban is on מואבי men, not women
  26. ChallengeThen would a ממזרת also be permitted?
  27. Resolutionממזר means 'a strange blemish'
  28. ChallengeThen would an Egyptian woman also be permitted?
  29. ResolutionThe Torah gives a reason that fits only men
  30. ChallengeThe women should have greeted the women
  31. Conclusionאבנר falls silent
  32. StatementThe king says: ask whose son this lad is
  33. QuestionWhy does the פסוק switch from 'נער' to 'עלם'?
  34. ResponseThe hint: the הלכה was hidden from you
  35. ConclusionThe ruling: a male עמוני or מואבי, not a female