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Yevamos 60

YEVAMOS 55-60 - Ari Kornfeld has generously sponsored the Dafyomi publications for these Dafim for the benefit of Klal Yisrael.

1) WHOM A KOHEN GADOL MAY MARRY

(a) Question (Rav Ashi): But Rav and R. Yochanan say, he may not marry a Bogeres or Mukas Etz - if he did marry them, he is married!
1. He may stay married, since any girl he marries will eventually become a Bogeres and Mukas Etz anyway.
2. We should also say, any girl he marries will become a non-virgin as well!
i. This question is left difficult.
(b) Mishnah: He may not marry a woman raped or enticed by another man - if he did marry them, R. Eliezer Ben Yakov says, she son is a Chalal; Chachamim say, the son is Kosher.
(c) Version #1: (Rav): The law is as R. Eliezer Ben Yakov.
(d) Version #2: Question (Rav): What is the reason of R. Eliezer Ben Yakov?
(e) Answer #1 (Rav): He holds as R. Elazar (who says that a woman becomes a Zonah for extramarital relations).
1. Question: This cannot be!
i. We hold, the Mishnayic teachings of R. Eliezer Ben Yakov are few and clean (i.e. the law is always as him).
ii. (Rav): The law is not as R. Elazar.
2. This is left difficult.
(f) Answer #2 (Rav Ashi): The Tana'im argue if a Chalal results from Chaivei Ase.
1. R. Eliezer Ben Yakov says yes; Chachamim say, no.
2. R. Eliezer Ben Yakov learns from "A widow, divorcee, Chalalah or Zonah, these he will not marry, but rather a virgin ... he will not profane his seed" - all these prohibitions profane his seed.
3. Chachamim say, the word "these" interrupts - only those listed before this word profane his seed.
4. R. Eliezer Ben Yakov says, "these" is needed to exclude a Nidah (that does not profane his seed).
(g) Question: As whom is the following?
1. (Beraisa): From these a Chalal is made, but not from a Nidah.
(h) Answer: It is as R. Eliezer Ben Yakov.
(i) Question: According to R. Eliezer Ben Yakov, the word "these" should have been written at the end (since all listed prohibitions make a Chalal)!
1. This is left difficult.
2) WHEN DOES A KOHEN BECOME TAMEI FOR HIS SISTER?
(a) (Beraisa - R. Meir and R. Yehudah): His engaged sister - he makes himself Tamei to bury her; R. Yosi and R. Shimon say, he does not;
1. If she was raped or enticed, all agree he does not make himself Tamei to bury her;
2. R. Shimon says, if she is a Mukas Etz, he does not make himself Tamei to bury her.
i. R. Shimon says, he only makes himself Tamei for a sister fitting to marry a Kohen Gadol.
3. All say, he makes himself Tamei to bury a Bogeres.
(b) Question: What is the reason of R. Meir and R. Yehudah?
(c) Answer: "To his virgin sister" - to exclude one that was raped or enticed.
1. Suggestion: Perhaps we should exclude even a Mukas Etz?
2. Rejection: "That was not (married) to a man" - one whose "being" (loss of virginity) was through a man, to exclude a Mukas Etz.
(d) "That is close" - to include an engaged sister.
(e) "To him" - to include a Bogeres.
(f) Question: Why must a verse teach this? R. Meir holds, "virgin" includes one that has some tokens of virginity!
(g) Answer: We would have thought to learn from there (Rashi - a virgin that is raped; Tosfos - from a girl fit for a Kohen Gadol), where she must be a Na'arah; the verse teaches us not to.
(h) Question: How do R. Yosi and R. Shimon learn?
(i) Answer: "To his virgin sister" - to exclude one that was raped or enticed and a Mukas Etz.
1. "That was not (married)" - to exclude an engaged sister.
2. "That is close" - to include a sister that was engaged and divorced.
3. "To him" - to include a Bogeres.
i. Question: "That is close" - to include a sister that was engaged and divorced - but R. Shimon says, he only makes himself Tamei for a sister fitting to marry a Kohen Gadol!
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ii. Answer: This case is different - the Torah said "close" to include it.
iii. Objection: We should also say by Mukas Etz, the Torah said "close" to include it!
iv. Answer: It comes to include one case, not 2.
v. Question: Why say it includes a sister divorced from engagement, and not a Mukas Etz?
vi. A physical act happened to the Mukas Etz, but not to the divorced sister.
(j) Question: R. Yosi did not say the law of Mukas Etz with his partner (R. Shimon) - he must hold as R. Meir - how does he learn?
(k) Answer: "That was not to a man", includes a Mukas Etz.
(l) Objection: But he already uses that verse (to exclude an engaged sister)!
(m) Answer: We learn Mukas Etz from "Was not"; "to a man" includes an engaged sister.
(n) Question: R. Shimon says that "virgin" implies having all tokens of virginity (why does he need a verse to include Bogeres - he should learn from the fact that a Kohen Gadol may marry a Bogeres)!
(o) Answer: He only learned that from our verse.
1. Since the Torah had to write "To him" to include a Bogeres, we learn that "virgin" implies a full virgin.
3) ARE ANY CONVERTS PERMITTED TO A KOHEN?
(a) (Beraisa - R. Shimon Bar Yochai): A girl that converted when at most 3 years may marry a Kohen - "All young girls that have not had relations, keep alive for yourselves" - and Pinchus was among the fighters permitted to these women!
(b) Chachamim: "Keep alive for yourselves" - as slaves.
1. Question: If so, even if they are above 3, they should be kept alive!
2. Answer: As Rav Huna taught.
i. Contradiction (Rav Huna): It says, "All women that have had relations with a man, kill" - implying, women that did not have relations should be kept alive; we also deduce, young girls are kept alive whether or not they had relations.
ii. Another verse says, "All young girls that did not have relations, keep alive for yourselves" - implying, if they did have relations, they are killed!
iii. Answer (Rav Huna): Both verses say that any girl old enough to have relations is killed.
iv. Support (Beraisa): "All women that have had relations with a man" - the verse speaks of a woman old enough to have relations;
A. Question: Perhaps it means that actually had relations?
B. Answer: Another verse says, "All young girls that did not have relations" - we see, the Torah talks of being fit for relations.
v. Question: How did they know which girls were fit for relations?
vi. Answer (Rav Huna Bar Bizna): They passed the girls in front of the Tzitz (an ornament of the Kohen Gadol). One whose face turned green was known to be fit for relations; if she did not turn green, she was not fit.
vii. (Rav Nachman): The face turning green is a sign of sin.
(c) "Among the dwellers of Yavesh Gilad were found 400 virgin Na'aros that did not have relations."
(d) Question: How did they know?
(e) Answer (Rav Kahana): They sat each on a barrel of wine. The smell of the wine would pass through a non-virgin, but not through a virgin.
(f) Question: Why didn't they pass them in front of the Tzitz?
(g) Answer (Rav Kahana Brei d'Rav Noson): "(The Tzitz is) to make acceptable for them" - not for punishments.
(h) Question: If so, it should not have been used by the captured Midianites!
(i) Answer (Rav Ashi): For them (Yisrael) it makes
acceptable, not for punishments - for Nachrim, even for punishments.
(j) (R. Yakov Bar Idi): R. Yehoshua Ben Levi said, the law is as R. Shimon Bar Yochai.
1. R. Zeira: Did you hear this explicitly, or did you derive it?
i. Question: How could this be derived?
ii. Answer: R. Yehoshua Ben Levi said, protests were made in a city in Eretz Yisrael. Rebbi sent R. Rumnus to check; he found a girl that converted before 3; Rebbi permitted her to Kehunah.
2. R. Yakov Bar Idi: I heard it explicitly.
3. Question: Had it been derived, what objection could be raised?
4. Answer: Perhaps once she was married, we would be lenient.
i. Support (Rav and R. Yochanan): A Kohen Gadol should not marry a Bogeres or Mukas Etz - if he married her, he is married.
5. Rejection: That is no support - there, whomever he will marry will become a Bogeres and a non-virgin during the marriage; here, is a Kohen's wife standing to become a Zonah during the marriage?
(k) Rav Safra derived the ruling, had the question, and answered as said above.
(l) A Kohen was married to a girl that converted before 3 years.
1. Rav Nachman Bar Yitzchak: Why did you marry her?
2. The Kohen: R. Yakov Bar Idi said that R. Yehoshua Ben Levi said that the law is as R. Shimon Bar Yochai!
3. Rav Nachman Bar Yitzchak: Divorce her, or I will remove (your reliance on) R. Yakov Bar Idi from you (i.e. I will excommunicate you, and you will be forced to divorce her).
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