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Yevamos 89b

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Yevamot 89b

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Topic

Whether בית דין can uproot a Torah law: impure תרומה, the ממזר child, and the minor wife (הפקר בית דין הפקר and מת מצוה).

Overview

This amud continues the case of someone who separates impure produce as תרומה for pure produce. The גמרא compares it to a משנה about a perforated and a non-perforated pot. It answers that impure produce is full תרומה by Torah law, and proves this from רבי אלעאי's teaching about separating bad produce for good. רבה then challenges רב חסדא: how could the רבנן turn Torah-level תרומה back into ordinary food, when a בית דין cannot uproot a Torah law? רב חסדא tries to prove that בית דין can do this, first from the child of the first husband who is called a ממזר, and then from a ברייתא about a husband who inherits his minor wife and becomes impure for her. Each proof is pushed aside. The child is only made stricter. Inheritance is a money matter, covered by הפקר בית דין הפקר, which רבי יצחק and רבי אלעזר learn from פסוקים. The husband may become impure for her because she counts as a מת מצוה, since her father's family, who do not inherit her, will not come to bury her.

Opening lines

מַאי שְׁנָא מֵהָא דִּתְנַן:

In what way is it different from that which we learned in a משנה:

מִן הַנָּקוּב עַל שֶׁאֵין נָקוּב —

If one separates from produce of a perforated pot for produce of a non-perforated pot,

תְּרוּמָתוֹ תְּרוּמָה,

his תרומה is תרומה,

וְלֹא תֵּאָכֵל עַד שֶׁיּוֹצִיא עָלֶיהָ

but it may not be eaten until he separates on it

The steps (20)

  1. ChallengeComparing to the perforated pot case
  2. ResolutionImpure produce is real תרומה by Torah law
  3. Proofרבי אלעאי's verse: separating from bad produce for good
  4. ProofWhy a sin proves the תרומה works
  5. Challengeרבה challenges רב חסדא
  6. Proofרב חסדא points to the child who is called a ממזר from the first husband
  7. Rejectionרבה answers that the child is only stricter, not permitted to a ממזרת
  8. Proofרב חסדא sends a new proof about inheriting a minor wife
  9. ChallengeDoes בית שמאי really not require the חופה?
  10. Resolutionבית שמאי require both growing up and the חופה
  11. ChallengeHow can רבי אליעזר say the husband inherits after relations with a minor?
  12. ResolutionShe must grow up and also have relations
  13. ProofBack to the proof: the husband inherits only מדרבנן
  14. Rejectionבית דין can declare property ownerless
  15. Proofרבי יצחק's source from the פסוק in עזרא
  16. Proofרבי אלעזר's source from the פסוק in יהושע
  17. ProofThe husband becomes impure for her, against Torah law
  18. RejectionShe counts as a corpse with no one to bury her
  19. ChallengeBut she has family who could bury her
  20. ResolutionHer family will not answer since they do not inherit her