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1) YIBUM OF MEN OF UNKNOWN FATHERS

(a) (Beraisa): A man can do Chalitzah to his mother because of doubt, to his sister because of doubt, to his daughter because of doubt.

1. To his mother: His mother and another woman - each had a son; later, each had another son, and these children got mixed up. Each certain son married the other son's mother; they died without children. Each of the doubtful children does Chalitzah to both women - it turns out, each did Chalitzah to his mother (and his Yevamah).
2. To his sister: Reuven's mother married a man after being widowed or divorced from Reuven's father. She and another woman each had a daughter, and these children got mixed up. Reuven had 2 paternal brothers from a different mother - they married the 2 girls, and died without children. Reuven does Chalitzah to both women, one of whom is his sister.
3. To his daughter: Reuven's wife and another woman each had a daughter, and these children got mixed up. Reuven's 2 brothers married the 2 girls, and died without children. Reuven does Chalitzah to both women, one of whom is his daughter.

(b) (Beraisa - R. Meir): A man and his wife can give birth to children from 5 different nations.

1. A Yisrael buys a slave couple with 2 children, one of whom converted - they have 1 son a Norchri, 1 a convert.
2. The parents immersed to become Kanani slaves, and had a child - now they also have a slave son.
3. The master freed the mother, and she had relations with her 'husband' - the child is a Mamzer.
4. The master freed the father also, and they had a child - their 5 children are a Nochri, convert, slave, Mamzer and Yisrael.

(c) Question: What do we learn from this?
(d) Answer: That a Nochri or slave that has relations with a Bas Yisrael, the child is a Mamzer.
(e) (Beraisa): A man can sell his father to collect his mother's Kesuvah.

1. A Yisrael bought a slave couple with a son. The master freed the mother and married her, and gave all his property to her son. The son sells his father to enable his mother to collect her Kesuvah.

(f) Question: What do we learn from this?
(g) Answer #1: The Beraisa is R. Meir - we learn that even though slaves are Metaltelim, there is a lien on them to pay a Kesuvah.
(h) Answer #2: (The Beraisa is as Chachamim that argue on R. Meir) - we learn that slaves are as land.

(a) (Mishnah): Leah's son was mixed up with her daughter-in-law's son. The children grew up and married women and died. Sons of the daughter-in-law do Chalitzah, not Yibum - the widow is either the wife of their brother, or the wife of their father's brother;
(b) Leah's sons do Yibum or Chalitzah - the widow is either the wife of their brother, or the wife of the son of their brother (which is permitted).
(c) If the Kosher children die - to wives of Leah's sons, the doubtful children do Chalitzah but not Yibum - the widow is either the wife of their brother, or the wife of their father's brother;
(d) If the daughter-in-law's children die, one doubtful child does Chalitzah, the other, Yibum (the widow is either the wife of his brother, or the wife of his brother's son).
(e) A Kohen's wife whose son was mixed up with her slave's son - the children may eat Terumah; they receive 1 share at the granaries;

(f) They may not become Tamei by contact with a corpse; they cannot marry women, neither Kosher nor disqualified.
(g) They grew up and freed each other. The following laws apply to each one:

1. He marries a woman fit for a Kohen;
2. He may not become Tamei - if he did, he is not lashed;
3. He does not eat Terumah - if he ate, he does not pay the principle, nor add a fifth;
4. He does not receive a share of Terumah at the granaries; he sells Terumah that he separates from his own produce, and keeps the money;
5. He does not get a share of Kodshim of the Temple, if he comes to offer a sacrifice, we do not seize it from him;
6. He is exempt from giving the foreleg, jaw and stomach of a Chulin animal;
7. His firstborn animals graze until they get a blemish;
8. We put on him the stringencies of a Kohen and a Yisrael.

(h) (Gemara) Question: Why does it call the certain children Kesherim - because these are mixed up, they are illegitimate?
(i) Answer (Rav Papa): Rather, say, the certain children.
(j) (Mishnah): To the children of the daughter-in-law, 1 does Chalitzah, the other, Yibum.

1. Chalitzah must be done before Yibum - but not Yibum first, lest he is from the mother-in-law, and the Shomeres Yavam transgresses having relations with a stranger.

(k) (Mishnah): A Kohen's wife whose son got mixed up ...
(l) Question: Obviously, they only get one share at the granaries!
(m) Answer: Our Mishnah is as the opinion that we only distribute Terumah to a slave if his master is with him.
(n) (Beraisa - R. Yehudah): We only distribute Terumah to a slave if his master is with him; R. Yosi says, he can say, if I am a Kohen, give for my sake; if I am a slave, give me for my master.

1. In R. Yehudah's area, they would establish a person as having proper lineage (for marriage) if he received Terumah; in R. Yosi's area, they would not establish a person as having proper lineage just because he received Terumah.

(o) (Beraisa - R. Elazar Bar Tzadok): I only testified once, and they established a slave as a Kohen based on my testimony.
(p) Question: Can this really be? Hash-m does not allow a pitfall to come even through the animals of Tzadikim, all the more so, through Tzadikim themselves! (q) Correction: Rather, they sought to establish a slave as a Kohen based on his testimony.

1. He saw a man receive Terumah in R. Yosi's area, and testified in R. Yehudah's area.

(r) (Beraisa): There are 10 people that we do not distribute Terumah to them at the granaries: a deaf person, lunatic or minor; a Tumtum or Androginus; a slave or woman; an Arel or Tamei person; and a Kohen married to a woman forbidden to him.

1. All of them, we send to their houses, except for a Tamei or a Kohen that married a woman forbidden to him.

(s) We understand, a deaf person, lunatic or minor - they lack knowledge.
(t) We also understand a Tumtum or Androginus - they are creations unto themselves;