Yevamos 91a

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Yevamot 91a

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Topic

Penalties for a woman who remarried on a false report of her husband's death, the opinions of the lenient תנאים, and רב's ruling about a woman who remarried without the court's permission

Overview

The גמרא keeps explaining the משנה about a woman who was told her husband died, remarried, and then saw her first husband return. It shows that the ban on marrying a כהן was listed only next to the new point that a בת לוי loses מעשר, and רב ששת explains that this loss is a special קנס. The בת כהן loses even תרומה דרבנן. Her sons lose כתובת בנין דיכרין, because the קנס reaches her children too. Both husbands' brothers do חליצה and not יבום, but for different reasons, one by Torah law and one by Rabbinic law. רב הונא and רבי יוחנן then disagree about which of the lenient תנאים at the end of the משנה (רבי יוסי, רבי אלעזר, רבי שמעון) agree with which, each using a קל וחומר. רב rules like the משנה's line that a woman who remarried on witnesses alone may return to her husband. רב נחמן asks why he did not openly name רבי שמעון, and this question stays unanswered. רב ששת argues the ruling was not needed and brings a ברייתא as proof, and the גמרא shows two ways the ברייתא could follow רבי שמעון, so a real dispute may remain.

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The steps (31)

1. ChallengeIsn't it obvious she is barred from marrying a priest?
2. ResolutionIt was said only because of the Levite's daughter
3. ChallengeA ברייתא says זנות does not bar a Levite woman from מעשר
4. Resolutionרב ששת: it is a special penalty
5. StatementA priest's daughter is barred even from תרומה דרבנן
6. ChallengeWhat כתובה could the heirs inherit?
7. Resolutionרב פפא: it means the sons' כתובה
8. ChallengeIsn't this obvious?
9. ResolutionWe might have thought the penalty is only on her
10. StatementWhy both brothers do חליצה but not יבום
11. StatementThe later תנאים agree with the earlier ones
12. StatementWhy רבי שמעון agrees with רבי אלעזר
13. StatementWhy רבי אלעזר does not agree with רבי שמעון
14. StatementBoth later תנאים agree with רבי יוסי about the כתובה
15. Statementרבי יוסי does not agree with the later leniencies
16. Statementרבי יוחנן reverses the rule
17. Statementרבי יוסי agrees with רבי אלעזר
18. Statementרבי אלעזר does not agree about the כתובה
19. StatementBoth earlier תנאים agree with רבי שמעון
20. Statementרבי שמעון does not agree with the money leniencies
21. Statementרב rules like the line about marrying without permission
22. ChallengeWhy not say plainly that the הלכה follows רבי שמעון
23. ChallengeEven so, he could have said 'like רבי שמעון in the last case'
24. ConclusionThe question is left standing
25. Statementרב ששת: רב said this while half asleep
26. ProofNo one disagrees, because she was like a woman forced
27. ProofA ברייתא: marrying on witnesses' word does not even need a גט
28. ChallengeCan the ברייתא follow רבי שמעון?
29. ResponseSuggestion: the ברייתא follows the רבנן
30. ResolutionIt is רבי שמעון, read his words differently
31. Resolutionרב אשי: רבי שמעון was talking about the first husband