Yevamos 89a

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Yevamot 89a

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Topic

The woman who remarried on a false report: her גט, her lost כתובה, and her child, with a side discussion about תרומה separated wrongly by mistake or on purpose

Overview

This amud continues the case of a woman who heard her husband died, remarried, and then the first husband came back. The גמרא explains that she needs a גט from the second man as a קנס (penalty), because she actually lived with a man forbidden to her. When she was only betrothed, she did nothing forbidden, so there is no קנס. She loses her כתובה so that it will be easy for the man to send her away. She also loses the rights that come from the כתובה's conditions, and she must return anything she already took. To explain why her child is a ממזר, the גמרא brings a משנה about separating תרומה from impure produce for pure produce. רב חסדא and רב נתן ברבי אושעיא argue about whether a deliberate separation like that counts for nothing at all, or still makes the portion תרומה. The גמרא then works through contradictions between cases of mistakes and cases done on purpose. It ends by starting a question on רב נתן ברבי אושעיא's view, which continues on the next amud.

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The steps (26)

1. ChallengeThe later case shows no גט is needed from the second man
2. ResolutionIn the later case people will call it a mistaken betrothal
3. ChallengeWhy not say the marriage was a mistake too?
4. ResolutionThe Rabbis penalized her
5. ChallengeThen penalize her in the later case too
6. ResolutionPenalty only where she did something forbidden
7. StatementQuoting the משנה: she has no כתובה
8. ResponseWhy she loses her כתובה
9. StatementQuoting the משנה: no produce, support, or worn clothes
10. ResponseThe כתובה's conditions are like the כתובה itself
11. StatementShe must return what she took from either man
12. ChallengeWhy say something so obvious?
13. ResolutionGrabbing it first does not let her keep it
14. StatementThe child is a ממזר
15. StatementA משנה about תרומה from impure produce
16. QuestionWhat does 'he has done nothing' mean?
17. Responseרב חסדא: Nothing at all happened
18. Responseרב נתן ברבי אושעיא: It is תרומה, but the rest is not fixed
19. ResponseWhy רב חסדא rejects that view
20. ChallengeChallenge from the bitter cucumber
21. ResolutionA mistake is different from doing it on purpose
22. ChallengeTwo mistake cases seem to clash
23. ResolutionThe cucumber mistake is almost on purpose
24. ChallengeTwo on-purpose cases seem to clash
25. ResolutionWith two pots he will obey; with one kind he will not
26. ChallengeSetting up a challenge against רב נתן ברבי אושעיא's reading