Yevamos 95b

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Yevamot 95b

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Topic

The 'light prohibition' of אשת איש, and the different explanations of רבי יוסי's rule 'whoever disqualifies others disqualifies himself'

Overview

The גמרא finishes explaining a ברייתא that used a קל וחומר. רבא, רבי יוחנן and a ברייתא from אבא חנן all say the 'light prohibition' there is אשת איש. It is called 'light' only because the husband can end it. The פסוק 'אותה' then blocks the קל וחומר: a man who sleeps with his wife's sister does not make his wife forbidden to him. Next the גמרא asks what רבי יוסי meant by 'whoever disqualifies others disqualifies himself.' Two simple guesses fail on the wording. רבי אמי then ties the rule to remarrying by permission of the בית דין versus based on עדים, and רבי יצחק נפחא ties it to a full wife versus a betrothed woman. שמואל rules like רבי יוסי, and רב יוסף objects from שמואל's view about a יבמה. אביי begins answering that שמואל may have meant a different reading or only part of the rule, and his answer continues on the next amud.

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The steps (24)

1. Responseרבא: the light prohibition is a married woman
2. QuestionWhy call a married woman a light prohibition
3. ResponseThe prohibition does not last all his life
4. ProofA ברייתא from אבא חנן supports this
5. ChallengeThe ברייתא's קל וחומר read with this meaning
6. RejectionThe פסוק 'אותה' blocks the קל וחומר
7. StatementQuoting רבי יוסי from the משנה
8. QuestionWhat does רבי יוסי mean
9. ResponseA first guess: the brother-in-law case
10. ResponseFirst guess finished: both women permitted
11. ChallengeThe first guess reverses the wording of the rule
12. ResponseSecond guess: both women forbidden
13. ChallengeThe second half of the rule has no job
14. Responseרבי אמי: the rule goes back to the first משנה
15. ResponseHow the תנא קמא sees the case in רבי אמי's reading
16. Responseרבי אמי finishes: how רבי יוסי answers the תנא קמא
17. Responseרבי יצחק נפחא: the rule refers to the later clause
18. Responseרבי יצחק נפחא: רבי יוסי splits wife from betrothed
19. Statementשמואל rules like רבי יוסי
20. Challengeרב יוסף questions whether שמואל said this
21. Challengeרב הונא describes the case of the יבמה argument
22. Challengeרב forbids her, שמואל permits her
23. RejectionMaybe שמואל meant רבי אמי's reading of רבי יוסי
24. RejectionEven with רבי יצחק נפחא's reading, which clause did שמואל mean?