Yevamos 87b

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Yevamot 87b

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Topic

Child rules for יבום and תרומה, the close of יש מותרות, and the new משנה about a woman whose husband returns

Overview

This amud opens by finishing a צריכותא, which explains why the תורה needs both "כנעוריה" and "זרע אין לה" for a כהן's daughter who wants to go back to eating תרומה. Next comes a series of קל וחומר arguments comparing יבום and תרומה. They ask whether a dead child counts like a living one, and whether a child from another husband counts. Each argument is blocked, either by "דרכיה דרכי נעם" or by the exact words of a פסוק. That closes פרק יש מותרות. A new פרק then opens with a משנה about a woman who remarried after hearing her husband died, and then he came back. She must leave both men, loses her marriage rights, and her children are ממזרים, though רבי יוסי, רבי אלעזר and רבי שמעון disagree on some points. The משנה also shows that a בית דין's ruling frees her from a קרבן. The גמרא then tries to prove that one witness is believed about a husband's death, bringing several sources. The last source, the ברייתא on "או הודע אליו," read as a case of one witness who says "you ate חלב," is challenged with the idea that silence counts as admitting. That discussion continues on the next amud.

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The steps (33)

1. ConclusionFinishing why both phrases are needed
2. StatementA memory-aid list for the coming discussions
3. Challengeרב יהודה's argument that dead children should not count like living ones
4. ResolutionThe Torah's ways are pleasant
5. ChallengeShould a dead child keep her from eating תרומה, as it does in יבום?
6. ResolutionThe פסוק says she has no child, and right now she has none
7. ChallengeShould a child from another husband free her from יבום, as it does in תרומה?
8. ResolutionThe פסוק says he has no son, and he had none
9. ChallengeShould a child from another husband not count for תרומה, as in יבום?
10. ResolutionThe פסוק says she has no child, but she does have one
11. ConclusionHadran — Closing the chapter יש מותרות
12. StatementThe case: the husband comes back after she remarried
13. StatementShe loses all her money rights from both men
14. StatementHer children, burial impurity, and the husbands' rights
15. StatementLost status, no inheritance of her כתובה, and only חליצה
16. Statementרבי יוסי: her כתובה still rests on the first husband's property
17. Statementרבי אלעזר: the first husband keeps a husband's rights
18. Statementרבי שמעון: her ביאה or חליצה frees her co-wife, and her child is not a ממזר
19. StatementWithout permission she may return, and with בית דין she owes no קרבן
20. StatementWithout a בית דין she owes a קרבן, which shows the court's power
21. StatementThe court allowed marriage, not wrongful relations
22. ProofThe גמרא reads the end of the משנה: 'without permission' means with witnesses
23. ProofSo the first case had one witness, which shows one witness is believed
24. ProofProof from the custom of allowing remarriage on hearsay
25. ProofProof from one witness who says 'you ate חלב'
26. QuestionAsking for the Torah source
27. ResponseThe ברייתא on 'או הודע אליו חטאתו'
28. ProofThe ברייתא must be about one witness
29. RejectionMaybe his silence is the reason
30. ProofEven two witnesses cannot obligate him if he denies it
31. Statementרבי מאיר holds him liable using a קל וחומר
32. RejectionThe חכמים answer: he could claim he sinned on purpose
33. QuestionTurning back to the first clause