משנה: אֵי זֶהוּ פְּצוּעַ דַכָּא. כָּל־שֶׁנִּפְצְעוּ הַבֵּצִים שֶׁלּוֹ וַאֲפִילוּ אַחַת מֵהֶן. וּכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה כַּל־שֶׁיִּכָּרֵת הַגִיד וְנִשְׁתַּייֵר בָּעֲטָרָה אֲפִילוּ כְּחוּט כָּשֵׁר. פְּצוּעַ דַכָּא וּכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה מוּתָּרִין בַּגִּיּוֹרֶת וּבַמְשׁוּחְרֶרֶת וְאֵינָן אֲסוּרִין אֶלָּא מִלָּבוֹא בַקָּהָל שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר לֹא יָבוֹא פְּצוּעַ דַכָּא וּכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה בִּקְהַל יי֨. MISHNAH: Who is injured in his lower parts114The Halakhah will investigate why דכא means the testicles. The Yevamot.75b">Babli, 75b, and most moderns hold that the word means “crushed”, the object crushed being understood without being mentioned. In the opinion of the Yerushalmi, the root of the word is דך “downtrodden”, the lowest organ of the body.? Everyone whose testicles are injured, even one of them. The one whose urethra115Really “discharge pipe”; this meaning is used in the Halakhah. is cut off, anyone whose penis is cut, but he is qualified if there is a thread’s116In the Babli: A hair’s breadth. [breath] left of the corona. The ones injured in their testicles or with cut-off urethra are permitted [to marry] a convert or a manumitted woman; they are only forbidden to marry into the congregation117The definition of “congregation” is discussed in the Halakhah., as it was said118Deuteronomy.23.2">Deut. 23:2.: “No one with a damaged testicle or with cut-off penis may marry into the Eternal’s congregation.”
הלכה: אֵי זֶהוּ פְּצוּעַ דַכָּא כול׳. פְּצוּעַ. הָיִיתִי אוֹמֵר. עֵינוֹ. תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר שָׁפְכָה. פָּצוּעַ שֶׁבְּצַד שָׁפְכָה. אִם פָּצוּעַ שֶׁבְּצַד שָׁפְכָה עֵינוֹ שֶׁבְּצַד חוֹטְמוֹ. תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר דַּכָּא. שֶׁבָּא בֵּין עֲקֵיבָיו. אָמַר רִבִּי חַגַּיי קוֹמֵי רִבִּי יוֹסֵי. אֵין לָךְ נָמוּךְ בָּאָדָם בְּשָּׁעָה שֶׁהוּא יוֹשֵׁב אֶלָּא בֵּיצָיו בִּלְבַד. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹסֵי בֵּירִבִּי בּוּן. וְיֵאוּת. תֵּדַע לָךְ שֶׁהוּא כֵן. שֶׁבְּכוּלָּן כְּתִיב דּוֹרוֹת חוּץ מִזֶּה שֶׁאֵינוֹ מוֹלִיד. וְלֹא סוֹף דָּבָר נִפְצְעָה אֶלָּא אֲפִילוּ נִימוֹקָה אֲפִילוּ יְבֵשָׁה אֲפִילוּ חֲסֵרָה. תַּנֵּי. רִבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל בְּנוֹ שֶׁל רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן בְּרוֹקָה אוֹמֵר. שָׁמַעְתִּי בְכֶרֶם בְּיַבְנֶה. כָּל־שֶׁאֵין לוֹ אֶלָּא בֵיצָה אַחַת אֶינוֹ מוֹלִיד וְהוּא סָרִיס חַמָּה. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹסֵי. שָׁמַעְתִּי הֲלָכָה כְרִבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן בְּרוֹקָה. וְלֶית אֲנָא יְדַע מִן מַה שְׁמָעִית. אָמַר רִבִּי אִימִּי. לֹא הֲוָה רִבִּי יוֹסֵי שְׁמַע לָהּ מִן בַּר נַשׁ זָעִיר. שְׁמוּאֵל אָמַר. אִם יָבוֹא לְפָנַיי בַּעַל בֵּיצָה אַחַת אֲנִי מַכְשִּׁירוֹ. רִבִּי חוּנָה אָמַר. דּוּ סָבַר כְּרִבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל בְּנוֹ שֶׁל רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן. אָמַר רִבִּי יוּדָן בַּר חָנִין. וּבִלְבַד שֶׁל יָמִין. אָתָא עוֹבְדָא קוֹמֵי רִבִּי אִימִּי. אָמַר לָהּ. אִין בְּרַתִּי דְּאַתְּ שַׁרְייָה לֵיהּ. אֶלָּא הֲוֵי יְדָעָה דְלָא מוֹלִיד. וַהֲוָה רִבִּי זְעִירָא מְקַלֵּס לָהּ דּוּ מֵשִׂים מִילְּתָא עַל בְּרָרָא. HALAKHAH: “Who is injured in his lower parts,” etc. “Injured,” I would have said in his eye. The verse says “discharge pipe119The original meaning of שפכה, translated in the Mishnah as “urethra”.”, he is injured in the neighborhood of the discharge pipe. If he is injured in the neighborhood of the discharge pipe it might be his eye in the neighborhood of his nose120Which also is a conduit for body discharges.! The verse says, “the lowly”. What comes between his heels. Rebbi Ḥaggai said before Rebbi Mana, a man’s lowest part when he sits down are his testicles. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun said, that is correct. You should know that this is so since in all other cases “generations” are written except in this case since he is infertile121In all other marriage prohibitions in that group, Deuteronomy.23.3-9">Deut. 23:3–9, the prohibition includes descendants. Only in v. 2 there is no mention of descendants. This is the only argument accepted in the Yevamot.75b">Babli, 75b.. And not only if [a testicle] is injured but also if it is gangrenous, or dried up, or missing122A slightly different text, including punctured and excluding dried-up testicles, is in Tosephta 10:3 and Yevamot.75a">Babli 75a.. It was stated: Rebbi Ismael ben Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa says: I heard in the vineyard at Jabne that nobody [born] with only one testicle can be fertile and he is a “sun eunuch”123A person infertile by natural causes is not forbidden to marry into the congregation. Rashba, in his commentary to the Yevamot.75a">Babli 75a, has the version: “Rebbi Ismael ben Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa says: I heard in the vineyard at Jabne that a person [born] with only one testicle and infertile is a ‘sun eunuch’”. The language in the Yevamot.75a">Babli, 75a, seems to indicate that even a person who had one testicle removed with the second intact is not prohibited from marrying into the congregation.. Rebbi Yose said, I heard that practice follows Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa but I do not remember from whom I heard it. Rebbi Immi said, certainly Rebbi Yose did not hear it from a minor personality. Samuel said, if a person with only one testicle will come before me, I shall declare him qualified. Rebbi Ḥuna said, because he thinks like Rebbi Ismael ben Rebbi Joḥanan. Rebbi Yudan ben Ḥanin said, but only the one of the right hand side124Tosaphot Yebamot 75a/b, s. v. שאין read וּבִלְבַד שְּׁלֵימִין “only if intact”. This is by far the better reading but it is not accepted in the halakhic tradition.. There came a case before Rebbi Immi. He said, yes, my daughter, you are permitted to him. But you should know that he is infertile. Rebbi Ze‘ira praised him for making the case clear.
פְּצוּעַ. אִית תַּנָּיֵי תַנֵּי. בִּידֵי אָדָם פָּסוּל בִּידֵי שָׁמַיִם כָּשֵּׁר. אִית תַּנָּיֵי תַנֵּי. בֵּין בִּידֵי אָדָם בֵין בִּידֵי שָׁמַיִם פָּסוּל. מָּאן דְּאָמַר. בִּידֵי אָדָם פָּסוּל בִּידֵי שָׁמַיִם כָּשֵּׁר. יְלִיף לָהּ מִמַּמְזֵר. לֹא יָבֹא מַמְזֵר. לא יָבוֹא פְצוּעַ דַּכָּא. מַה מַמְזֵר בִּידֵי אָדָם אַף פְּצוּעַ דַכָּא בִידֵי אָדָם. מָּאן דְּאָמַר. בֵּין בִּידֵי אָדָם בֵין בִּידֵי שָׁמַיִם פָּסוּל. מְנָן לֵיהּ. אָמַר רִבִּי מָנָא. מֵהָכָא. לא יָבוֹא פְצוּעַ דַּכָּא לְעוֹלָם. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹסֵי בֵּירִבִּי בּוּן. עוֹד הוּא יְלִיף לָהּ מִמַּמְזֵר. לֹא יָבֹא מַמְזֵר. לא יָבוֹא פְצוּעַ דַּכָּא. מַה מַמְזֵר בִידֵי שָׁמַיִם. אַף פְּצוּעַ דַכָּא בִידֵי שָׁמַיִם. וּמַמְזֵר בִידֵי שָׁמַיִם. יְצִירָתוֹ בִידֵי שָׁמַיִם. הֲווֹן בָּעֵיי מֵימַר. מָּאן דְּאָמַר. בִּידֵי אָדָם פָּסוּל בִּידֵי שָׁמַיִם כָּשֵׁר. רִבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל בְּנוֹ שֶׁלְּרִבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן בְּרוֹקָה. מָּאן דְּאָמַר. בֵּין בִּידֵי אָדָם בֵין בִּידֵי שָׁמַיִם פָּסוּל כְּרַבָּנִן. אָמַר רִבִּי אָחָא בַּר פַּפַּי קוֹמֵי רִבִּי זְעִירָה. כּוּלָּהּ דְּרַבָּנִן. הֲרֵי שֶׁעָלַת חַטָּטִין מְחָכֵּךְ בָּהּ אוֹ מַסַּייָת. וַהֲרֵי הוּא בִידֵי אָדָם כְּמִי שֶׁהוּא בִידֵי שָּׁמַיִם. Some Tannaïm state: Through human action he is disqualified, through Heaven’s action he is qualified125This is the only opinion reporte in the Yevamot.75b">Babli, 75b.. Some Tannaïm state: He is disqualified both through human or Heaven’s action126In the Tosephta. 10:3, this is the opinion of R. Joḥanan ben Beroqa.. He who said, through human action he is disqualified, through Heaven’s action he is qualified, infers it from a bastard. “A bastard may not marry,” “no one with a damaged testicle may marry.” Just as a bastard is created by human action127There is no bastard without human incest or adultery. The same argument in the Yevamot.75b">Babli, 75b., so the one injured in a testicle is created by human action. He who said, he is disqualified both through human or Heaven’s action, from where does he infer it? Rebbi Mana said, from here: “No one with a damaged testicle may marry,” ever. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Abun said, he still infers it from a bastard. “A bastard may not marry,” “no one with a damaged testicle may marry.” Just as a bastard is created by Heaven’s action, so the one injured in a testicle is created by Heaven’s action. Is the bastard created by Heaven’s action? His formation is by Heaven’s action. They wanted to say that he who said, through human action he is disqualified, through Heaven’s action he is qualified, follows Rebbi Ismael the son of Rebbi Joḥanan ben Beroqa; he who said, he is disqualified both through human or Heaven’s action, [follows] the rabbis. Rebbi Aḥai bar Pappaios128Elsewhere, he is called R. Aḥa bar Pappus. said before Rebbi Ze‘ira, all follows the rabbis. For instance, if scab developed and he rubbed or squeezed it off, that is human action induced by Heaven’s action.
וּכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה כַּל־שֶׁנִּכְרַת הַגִיד וְנִשְׁתַּייֵר בָּעֲטָרָה אֲפִילוּ כְּחוּט כָּשֵׁר. רִבִּי יוֹסֵי בְשֵׁם רִבִּי חֲנִינָה. בַּעֲטָרָה הָעֶלְיוֹנָה. רִבִּי חִייָה בְשֵׁם רִבִּי חֲנִינָה. בַּעֲטָרָה הַתַּחְתּוֹנָה. רִבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי אָמַר. בַּעֲטָרָה הַתַּחְתּוֹנָה. תַּמָּן אָֽמְרֵי. הֶעָשׂוּי כְמַרְזֵב כָּשֵׁר. רִבִּי הִילָא בְשֵׁם רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן. כְּקוֹלֲמוֹס הֲרֵי זֶה כָּשֵׁר. כְּקוֹלֲמוֹס הָפוּךְ הֲרֵי זֶה פָסוּל. נִיקֵּב בּוֹ נֶקֶב. מִבִּפְנִים פָּסוּל מִבַּחוּץ כָּשֵׁר. רִבִּי בָּא בְשֵׁם רַב יְהוּדָה. מִבִּפְנִים. מִן הָעֲטָרָה וְלִפְנִים. מִבַּחוּץ. מִן הָעֲטָרָה וְלַחוּץ. נִיקֵּב הֲרֵי זֶה פָסוּל. נִסְתַּם הֲרֵי זֶה כָּשֵׁר. נִיקֵּב הֲרֵי זֶה פָסוּל מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהוּא שׁוֹפֵךְ. נִסְתַּם הֲרֵי זֶה כָּשֵׁר מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהוּא מוֹלִיד. וְזֶהוּ פְסוּל הַחוֹזֵר לְהֶכְשֵׁירוֹ. תַּנֵּי אֵין בֵּין פְצוּעַ דַּכָּא לְבֵין כְּרוּת שָׁפְכָה אֶלָּא הִלְכוֹת רוֹפְאִין. שֶׁפַּצּוּעַ דַּכָּא חוֹזֵר. שֶׁבִּכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה אֵינוֹ חוֹזֵר. כֵּיצַד הוּא עוֹשֶׂה. רִבִּי יַעֲקֹב בַּר אַחָא בְשֵׁם רַב יְהוּדָה. מֵבִיא נֵימוֹלִין וּמֹשְׁכִין וְקוֹצֵץ. “The one whose urethra is cut off, anyone whose penis is cut, but he is qualified if there is a thread’s [breath] left of the corona,” etc. Rebbi Yose in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina: Of the upper side of the corona. Rebbi Ḥiyya in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina: Of the lower side of the corona. Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, of the lower side of the corona129In the Yevamot.75b">Babli, 75b, it is only required that a hair’s breadth of the corona be left along the greater part of the circumference of the penis.. There130In Babylonia. In the Yevamot.75b">Babli, 75b, there are different opinions in the matter. Maimonides interprets the Babli as being parallel to the Yerushalmi; R. Jacob ben Asher (Ṭur) holds that the Babli opposes the Yerushalmi. A drainpipe is cut at a right angle to the pipe., they said, if it has the shape of a drainpipe, he is qualified. Rebbi Hila in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan, if it has the shape of a writing reed, he is qualified, of an inverted writing reed, he is disqualified131A writing reed (and a quill) is cut to be short at the top and long at the bottom; that is acceptable. But if the penis is cut short at the bottom and long at the top, it might not be possible to deliver the semen into the vagina and the man is disqualified for marriage.. If it is punctured, from the inside he is disqualified, from the outside he is qualified. Rebbi Abba in the name of Rav Jehudah, “inside” [means] from the corona towards the body; “outside” [means] from the corona away from the body. If it is punctured, he is disqualified; if it became blocked, he is qualified. If [the urethra] is punctured, he is disqualified, because it pours out; if it became blocked, he is qualified because he can be fertile132Yevamot.76a">Babli 76a.. That is a disqualification which can revert to a qualification. The only difference between one injured in his lower parts and one whose testicles are injured are medical rules since an injured testicle may heal, an injured urethra does not heal. What can he do? Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa in the name of Rav Jehudah: He brings ants, lets them bite, and cuts them off133Yevamot.76a">Babli 76a. One clips off the bodies of the ants while they still hold the flesh together in their fangs..
רִבִּי חִלְקִיָּה רִבִּי סִימוֹן בְשֵׁם רִבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי. לֹא שָׁנוּ אֶלָּא פְצוּעַ דַּכָּא יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲבָל פְּצוּעַ דַּכָּא כֹהֵן לֹא בְדָא. תַּמָּן תַּנִּינָן. כָּל־הָאֲסוּרִין לָבוֹא בַקָּהָל פְּטוּרִין לָבוֹא זֶה בָזֶה. רִבִּי יוּדָה אוֹסֵר. רִבִּי יִרְמְיָה אָמַר. כְּלָלָא פְּצוּעַ דַּכָּא יִשְׂרָאֵל מוּתָּר לוֹ לִישָּׂא מַמְזֶרֶת. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹסֵי. בִּלְבַד פְּסוּל מִשְׁפָּחָה. הָא פְּסוּל גּוּף לֹא בְדָא. חֵיילֵיהּ דְּרִבִּי יוֹסֵי מִן הָדָא דְאָמַר רִבִּי חִלְקִיָּה רִבִּי סִימוֹן בְּשֵׁם רִבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי. לֹא שָׁנוּ אֶלָּא פְצוּעַ דַּכָּא יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲבָל פְּצוּעַ דַּכָּא כֹהֵן כְּמַא דְאַתְּ אָמַר תַּמָּן. אִם כֹּהֵן בָּרוּר הוּא פְּסוּל לוֹ לִישָּׂא גִיּוֹרֵת. אַף הָכָא יִשְׂרָאֵל בָּרוּר אָסוּר לִישָּׂא מַמְזֶרֶת. Rebbi Ḥilqiah, Rebbi Simon in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: One did state this134The statement in the Mishnah that people injured in their testicles may marry people forbidden to marry into the congregation. The injured Cohen remains a Cohen and may not marry at all; Yevamot.76a">Babli 76a. only for an Israel with an injured testicle, but not a Cohen with an injured testicle. There, we have stated135Kiddushin 4:3:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.3.1">Mishnah Qiddushin 4:3.: “All those forbidden to marry into the congregation may marry one another; Rebbi Jehudah forbids.” 136This and the following paragraphs form Kiddushin 4:3:2-5" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.3.2-5">Halakhah Qiddushin4:3. Rebbi Jeremiah said, as a matter of principle, an Israel with an injured testicle may marry a female bastard137Since both are excluded from marrying into the congregation.. Rebbi Yose said, it135Kiddushin 4:3:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.3.1">Mishnah Qiddushin 4:3. applies only to family blemishes, not to bodily defects. The strength of Rebbi Yose comes from the statement of Rebbi Ḥilqiah, Rebbi Simon in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: One did state this only for an Israel with an injured testicle, but not a Cohen, since, as you say there, if he is certainly a Cohen it is disabling if he married a convert138According to R. Joshua ben Levi, if he marries a convert (who is assumed to have had illicit sex before she converted) he becomes disabled for heave. For the Yevamot.76a">Babli, 76a, a Cohen injured in his testicles is disabled for heave and may marry a convert, siding with R. Jeremiah.; here also, he is certainly an Israel and forbidden to marry a female bastard.
עַל דַּעְתֵּיהּ דְּרִבִּי יוּדָה מַמְזֵר לֹא יִשָּׂא מַמְזֶרֶת. נִישְׁמְעִינָהּ מִן הָדָא דָּמַר רִבִּי אִימִּי תַּנֵּי רִבִּי יַעֲקֹב גֶּבַּלָּיָא קוֹמֵי רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן רִבִּי יִצְחָק בַּר טֶבְלַיי בְשֵׁם רִבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן לָקִישׁ. דִּבְרֵי רִבִּי יְהוּדָה מַמְזֵר לֹא יִשָּׂא מַמְזֶרֶת כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּתְכַּלּוּ מַמְזֵירִין מִן הָעוֹלָם. וְדִכְװָתָהּ עֲמּוֹנִי לֹא יִשָּׁא עֲמּוֹנִית. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹסֵי בֵּירִבִּי בּוּן. עַל דְּרַבָּנִין נִצְרְכָה. דְּאִין יִסְבּוֹר רִבִּי יוּדָה גֵּירִין פְּסוּלִין קְהַל יי֨ אִינּוּן. לִישָּׂא עֲמּוֹנִית אֵינוֹ יָכוֹל שֶׁהוּא קְהַל יי֨ אֶצְלָהּ. לִישָּׂא מִצְרִית אֵינוֹ יָכוֹל שֶׁהוּא קְהַל יי֨ אֶצְלָהּ. אָמַר רִבִי מַתַּנְיָה. מְשַׁחְרְרִין לוֹ שִׁפְחָה. וְדִכְװָתָהּ מִצְרִי לֹא יִשָּׂא מִצְרִית. נִישְׁמְעִינָהּ מִן הָדָא. תַּנֵּי רִבִּי אַבָּהוּ קוֹמֵי רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן. אָמָר רִבִּי יוּדָה. בִּנְיָמִן גֵּר מִצְרִי הָיָה מִתַּלְמִידָיו שֶׁלְּרִבִּי עֲקִיבָה. אָמַר. אֲנִי גֵּר מִצְרִי נָשׂוּי לְגִיּוֹרֶת מִצְרִית. בְּנִי בֶן גֵּר מִצְרִי וַאֲנִי מַשִּׂיאוֹ לְגִיּוֹרֶת מִצְרִית. נִמְצָא בֶּן בְּנִי כָשֵׁר לָבוֹא בְקָהָל. אָמַר לוֹ רִבִּי עֲקִיבָה. לֹא בְנִי. אֶלָּא אַף אַתָּה הַשִּׂיאוֹ לְבַת גִּיּוֹרֶת מִצְרִית כְּדֵי שֶׁיְּהוּ שְׁלֹשָׁה דוֹרוֹת מִיכָּן וּשְׁלֹשָׁה דוֹרוֹת מִיכָּן. In the opinion of Rebbi Jehudah, may a male bastard not marry a female bastard139In Kiddushin 4:3" href="/Mishnah_Kiddushin.4.3">Mishnah Qiddushin 4:3 (Note 135), R. Jehudah makes a sweeping statement that no two people disqualified from marrying into the congregation may marry one another. The rabbis also will agree that a Moabite or Ammonite cannot marry a Moabite or Ammonite woman, cf. Yevamot 8:3:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Yevamot.8.3.1">Mishnah 3. R. Jehudah may hold that converts form a congregation of their own and therefore bastards are prohibited from marrying them but are permitted to marry bastards, or he may hold, as is asserted later in the Halakhah, that bastards should not marry any Jew and are prohibited from marrying other bastards.? Let us hear from the following, as Rebbi Immi said, Rebbi Jacob from Gebal stated before Rebbi Joḥanan, Rebbi Isaac bar Tevele in the name of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish: Rebbi Jehudah stated that a male bastard should not marry a female bastard so that bastards should disappear from the world140In Kiddushin 3:11:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.3.11.1">Mishnah Qiddushin 3:13, R. Tarphon counsels the male bastard to live with a slave girl whose children will be slaves not legally connected with him. If he converts (and therefore frees) his biological children at birth they will be converts, free from the taint of bastardy. The female bastard may marry a convert; since this marriage is legal and untainted, the child will be a convert, not a bastard (Kiddushin 3:10:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.3.10.1">Mishnah Qiddushin 3:12).. Similarly, is an Ammonite man forbidden to marry an Ammonite woman? Was that needed for the rabbis? For if Rebbi Jehudah would think that disqualified converts form one of the Eternal’s congregations, then [the Ammonite] could not marry an Ammonite woman since for her he would be of the Eternal’s congregation141The text given is the corrector’s. The uncorrected text is inconsistent: שהוא קהל יי֨ אצלו which probably should be שהיא קהל יי֨ אצלו “for she belongs to the Eternal’s congregation [forbidden] to him,” cf. Yevamot 8:3:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Yevamot.8.3.1">Mishnah 3.. He could not marry an Egyptian woman since for her he would be of the Eternal’s congregation142For R. Jehudah only.. Rebbi Mattania said, one frees a slave girl for him. Similarly, could an Egyptian man not marry an Egyptian woman? Let us hear from the following, as Rebbi Abbahu stated before Rebbi Joḥanan: “Rebbi Jehudah said, Benjamin, an Egyptian convert, was a student of Rebbi Aqiba. He said, I am an Egyptian convert married to an Egyptian convert. My son is an Egyptian convert; I shall marry him to an Egyptian convert so that my grandson will be qualified to marry into the congregation143In the Yevamot.78a">Babli, 78a, Rabba bar bar Ḥana justifies Benjamin against R. Aqiba since Kiddushin 3:10:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.3.10.1">Mishnah Qiddushin 3:12 states that in all marriages that are perfectly lawful the status of the child is determined by that of the father alone.. Rebbi Aqiba said to him, my son, it is not so. But you marry him to the daughter of an Egyptian woman convert so that there should be three generations on every side.144The text (without R. Aqiba’s remark) is in the Yevamot.76b">Babli, Yebamot 76b, Yevamot.78a">78a; Sotah.9a">Soṭah 9a. A full text is in Tosephta Qiddushin 5:4. There, the text is up-to-date, following Yadayim 4:5" href="/Mishnah_Yadayim.4.5">Mishnah Yadaim 4:5: “Rebbi Aqiba told him: Benjamin, you erred in the practice. Since Sanherib came and mixed all peoples {by mass deportations}, neither Ammonites and Moabites {permanently barred} nor Egyptians and Edomites {barred for two generations} are in their places … but everybody may marry one of any family on earth.” But in Tosephta Yadaim 4:18 it is stated that from all peoples only the restrictions on Egyptians are valid since Ezekiel.29.13">Ezechiel (29:13) certified that the Egyptians returned to their land. In any case, it is clear that R. Aqiba asserts that an Egyptian woman may marry an Egyptian man.”
רַב יְהוּדָה בְשֵׁם רַב. הֲלָכָה כְּרִבִּי לִעֶזֶר דִּבְרֵי חֲכָמִים. רִבִּי יִרְמְיָה בְשֵׁם רִבִּי שְׁמוּאֵל בַּר רַב יִצְחָק. כְּתִיב לֹא יָבֹא מַמְזֵר בִּקְהַל יי֨. בְּקָהָל בָּרוּר אֵינוֹ בָא. בָּא הוּא בִקְהַל סָפֵק. Rav Jehudah in the name of Rav: Practice follows Rebbi Eliezer145In Kiddushin 4:3:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.3.1">Mishnah Qiddushin 4:3 he states that people who certainly are barred from marrying into the congregation may marry one another but that those of unclear status, foundlings and Samaritans, cannot marry. This and the next paragraphs are from Kiddushin 4:3:2-5" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.3.2-5">Qiddushin 4:3.. The words of the Sages146Who permit people who are certainly excluded to marry those who are excluded only because of doubt.? Rebbi Jeremiah in the name of Rebbi Samuel bar Rav Isaac, it is written: “No bastard shall marry into the Eternal’s congregation”. He cannot marry into a congregation which is certain. He may marry if the membership in the congregation is questionable147The same argument is in Kiddushin.73a">Babli Qiddushin 73a..
תַּמָּן תַּנִּינָן סָפֵק בֶּן תֵּשַׁע לָרִאשׁוֹן בֶּן שִׁבְעָה לָאַחֲרוֹן. יוֹצִיא וְהַװְלָד כָּשֵׁר וְחַייָבִין אָשָׁם תָּלוּי. תַּנֵּי. הָרִאשׁוֹן כָּשֵׁר לִהְיוֹת כֹּהֵן גָּדוֹל וְהַשֵּׁינִי מַמְזֵר בְּסָפֵק. רִבִּי אֱלִעֶזֶר בֶּן יַעֲקֹב אוֹמֵר. אֵין מַמְזֵר בְּסָפֵק. מוֹדֶה רִבִּי לִיעֶזֶר בֶּן יַעֲקֹב בִּסְפֵק כּוּתִים וּבִסְפֵק חַלָּלִים. כְּהַהִיא דְתַנִּינָן תַּמָּן. עשָׂרָה יוּחֲסִין עָלוּ מִבָּבֶל. עַל דַּעְתֵּיהּ דְּרִבִּי לִיעֶזֶר בֶּן יַעֲקֹב שְׁמוֹנֶה. עַל דַּעְתִּין דְּרַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל וְרִבִּי לִיעֶזֶר תִּשְׁעָה. עַל דַּעְתִּין דְּרַבָּנִן עֲשָׂרָה. 148Yevamot 4:2:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Yevamot.4.2.1">Mishnah 4:2. There, we have stated: “If it is doubtful whether [the child is] a nine-month’s child of the first [brother] or a seven-month’s of the second, he has to divorce her, the child is legitimate, and they are obligated for a reparation offering for a possible sin.” 149Yevamot 8:4" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Yevamot.8.4">Halakhah 4:2, Notes 79–83. It was stated: “The first son could be High Priest, any second son possibly is a bastard. Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob said, there is no such thing as a possible bastard.” Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob agrees in cases of doubt of Samaritans and desecrated persons. This refers to what we have stated there: “Ten classes returned from Babylonia.” In the opinion of Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob, eight. In the opinion of Rabban Gamliel and Rebbi Eliezer, nine. In the opinion of the rabbis, ten.
אָמַר רִבִּי חִינְנָא. מַתְנִיתָא דְלָא כְרִבִּי יוּדָה. דְּרִבִּי יוּדָה אָמַר. אַרְבָּעָה קְהִילּוֹת אִינּוּן קָהָל. קְהַל כֹּהֲנִים. קְהַל לְוִיִים. קְהַל יִשְׂרָאֵל. קְהַל גֵּרִים. מֵתִיבִין דְּרִבִּי יוּדָה. וְהָֽכְתִיב לא יָבוֹא פְצוּעַ דַּכָּא פְּסוּל גּוּף אִינּוּן. וְהָֽכְתִיב בָּנִים אֲשֶׁר יִוָּֽלְדוּ לָהֶם דּוֹר שְׁלִישִׁי יָבֹא לָהֶם. בַּעֲשֵׂה אִינּוּן. וְרַבָּנִין אָֽמְרִין. שְׁלֹשָׁה קְהִילּוֹת אִינּוּן. קְהַל כֹּהֲנִים. קְהַל לְוִיִים. קְהַל יִשְׂרָאֵל. לא יָבֹא. לא יָבֹא. לא יָבֹא. Rebbi Ḥinena said, the Mishnah150Kiddushin 4:1:2-16" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.1.2-16">Qiddushin 4:1. The paragraph is from there, Yevamot 4:1:2-6" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Yevamot.4.1.2-6">Halakhah 4:1. does not follow Rebbi Jehudah151The Mishnah states that converts may marry anybody, including bastards., since Rebbi Jehudah said that four congregations are called “congregation”, the congregation of Cohanim, the congregation of Levites, the congregation of Israelites, the cogregation of converts. They objected to Rebbi Jehudah152In verses Deuteronomy.23.2-9">Deut. 23:2–9, the expression “the Eternal’s congregation” appears 6 times. Should there not be 6 congregations?, but is it not written, “one injured in his testicles should not come”? That refers to bodily blemishes153Deuteronomy.23.2">Deut. 23:2. This is a personal exclusion, not a generic one. This verse is not counted. Cf. Yevamot 8:2:5" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Yevamot.8.2.5">Note 135.. But is it not written, “children that will be born to them, the third generation shall come from them”? That is a positive commandment154Deuteronomy.23.9">Deut. 23:9. The prohibition of Egyptians and Edomites is only by inference. Since it is a positive commandment to let Egyptian converts of the third generation marry into the congregation, it follows that the first two may not. But as a positive commandment, an infraction of the rule is not prosecutable. R. Jehudah counts only mentionings of “the Eternal’s congregation” connected to explicit prohibitions of groups.. But the rabbis said, there are three congregations, the congregation of Cohanim, the congregation of Levites, the congregation of Israelites; “they shall not come, they shall not come, they shall not come155The rabbis agree that four times one finds the expression בקהל יי֨ לא יבא, but only three are left for symbolical inferences since at least one is needed for the fact of the prohibition..”
דִּלֹמָה. רִבִּי הוֹשַׁעְיָה רוֹבָה וְרִבִּי יוּדָן נְשִׂייָא הֲװֹן יְתִיבִין. רָהַט רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן וְלָחַשׁ לֵיהּ בְּאוּדְנָא דְּרִבִּי הוֹשַׁעְיָה רוֹבָא. פְּצוּעַ דַּכָּא כֹהֵן מַהוּ שֶׁיִּשָּׂא בַת גֵּרִים. אָמַר לֵיהּ. מַה אָמַר לָךְ. אָמַר לֵיהּ. מִילָּה דְנַגָּר בַּר נַגָּרִין לֹא מְפָרֵיק לֵיהּ. לֹא אָמַר לִי גִּיּוֹרֶת שֶׁהִיא כְזוֹנָה אֶצְלוֹ. וְלֹא בַת יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁהִיא כְחַלָּלָה. לֹא אָמַר לִי אֶלָּא בַת גֵּרִים. וּבַת גֵּרִים לֹא כְיִשְׂרָאֵל הִיא. פָּתַר לָהּ כְּרִבִּי יוּדָה. דְּרִבִּי יוּדָה אוֹמֵר. בַּת גֵּר זָכָר כְּבַת חָלָל זָכָר. Example. The elder Rebbi Hoshaia and Rebbi Judah Neśia were sitting together. Rebbi Joḥanan ran und whispered into Rebbi Hoshaia the elder’s ear: May a Cohen who is injured in his testicles marry the daughter of converts? He156R. Jehudah Neśia. asked him, what did he tell you? He answered, a question which a carpenter, son of carpenters157A Sage, son of Sages., cannot resolve. He did not ask me about a convert, since she is like a whore for him158Yevamot 6:5:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Yevamot.6.5.1">Mishnah 6:5.. He did not ask about an Israelite daughter, for she will be desecrated159Since he remains a Cohen, he desecrates any woman forbidden to him.. He asked only about the daughter of converts! Is the daughter of converts not an Israel160Kiddushin 4:6:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.6.1">Mishnah Qiddushin 4:6. If she was conceived after conversion, she is an Israel for everybody except R. Jehudah who excludes descendants of converts from the priesthood on basis of Ezekiel.44.22">Ez. 44:22. Cf. Bikkurim, Chapter 1, Notes 96, 104.? You have to explain it following Rebbi Jehudah, since Rebbi Jehudah says, the daughter of a male convert has the status of a desecrated male161Since R. Jehudah is not followed in practice, R. Joḥanan’s question is answered in the negative even by a minor capacity such as R. Jehudah Neśia..
כֹּהֵן שֶׁבָּא עַל גְּרוּשָׁה וְהוֹלִיד בַּת וּבַת בַּת מַהוּ. רִבִּי חֲנָניָה וְרִבִּי מָנָא. חַד אָמַר. כְּשֵׁירָה. וְחַד אָמַר. פְּסוּלָה. מָתִיב מָאן דְּאָמַר כְּשֵׁירָה לְמָאן דְּאָמַר פְּסוּלָה. בַּת חָלָל זָכָר אֵינָהּ חֲלָלָה מִכְּהוּנָּה. אֵינָהּ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל. מָה אַתְּ פּוֹסְלָהּ. If a Cohen had intercourse with a divorcee and had a daughter, and the daughter a daughter, what is her status? Rebbi Ḥanania and Rebbi Mana, one said she is qualified, the other said she is disqualified. The one who said she is qualified objected to the one who said she is disqualified: The daughter of a desecrated male is desecrated for the priesthood. Is this one162The Cohen’s granddaughter from an Israel son-in-law is explicitly qualified for the priesthood by Kiddushin 4:6:1" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.6.1">Mishnah Qiddushin 4:6. An extended discussion of this case is in Kiddushin 4:6:2-7" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.6.2-7">Halakhah Qiddushin 4:6. not from an Israel? Why do you declare her disqualified?
רִבִּי יַעֲקֹב בַּר אִידִי בְשֵׁם רִבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן לֵוִי. מַעֲשֶׂה בְּמִשְׁפָּחָה אַחַת בְרוֹדוֹס שֶׁהָיוּ קוֹרִין עָלֶיהָ עִרְעֵר וְשָּׁלַח רִבִּי אֶת רִבִּי רוֹמָנוּס לְבוֹדְקָהּ. וּבָדַק וּמָצָא שֶׁנִּתְגַּייְרָה זְקֵינָתָהּ פָּחוֹת מִבַּת שָׁלֹשׁ שָׁנִים וְיוֹם אֶחָד. וְהִכְשִׁירָהּ לִכְהוּנָּה. רַב הוֹשַׁעְיָה אָמַר כְּרִבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן הִכְשִׁירָהּ. אָמַר רִבִּי זְעִירָה. דִּבְרֵי הַכֹּל הִיא הָכָא. דְּאָמַר רִבִּי זְעִירָה בְשֵׁם רַב אָדָא בַּר אַחֲװָא רִבִּי יוּדָן מַטֵּי בָהּ בְּשֵׁם רַב. רִבִּי אַבָּהוּ בְשֵׁם רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן. װְלַד בּוֹגֶרֶת כָּשֵׁר. שֶׁהִיא בְלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה שֶׁהוּא בָא מִכֹּחַ עֲשֵׂה. וְהוּא אִשָּׁה בִבְתוּלֶיהָ יִקָּח וְלֹא בוֹגֶרֶת. כָּל־לֹא תַעֲשֶׂה שֶׁהוּא בָא מִכֹּחַ עֲשֵׂה עֲשֵׂה הוּא. וְדִכְװָתָהּ כִּי אִם בְּתוּלָה מֵעַמָּיו יִקַּח אִשָּׁה וְלֹא גִיּוֹרֶת. כָּל־לֹא תַעֲשֶׂה שֶׁהוּא בָּא מִכֹּחַ עֲשֵׂה עֲשֵׂה הוּא. הָתִיב רִבִּי הוֹשַׁעְיָה. הֲרֵי שֵׁינִי לְמִצְרִי שֶׁהוּא בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה שֶׁהוּא בָּא מִכֹּחַ עֲשֵׂה עֲשֵׂה הוּא. חָזַר רִבִּי הוֹשַׁעְיָה וְאָמַר. לֹא דוֹמֶה עֲשֵׂה שֶׁבְּיִשְׂרָאֵל לַעֲשֵׂה שֶׁבַּכֹּהֲנִים. עֲשֵׂה שֶׁבְּיִשְׂרָאֵל אָסוּר בַּכֹּל. עֲשֵׂה שֶׁבַּכֹּהֲנִים אָסוּר בַּכֹּהֲנִים וּמוּתָּר בִּלְוִיִם וּבְיִשְׂרָאֵל. 164Parallel text in Bikkurim 1:5:5-7" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Bikkurim.1.5.5-7">Bikkurim 1:6, explained there in Yevamot 8:1:17-18" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Yevamot.8.1.17-18">Notes 101–106, and Kiddushin 4:7:2-3" href="/Jerusalem_Talmud_Kiddushin.4.7.2-3">Qiddushin4:7. Rebbi Jacob bar Idi in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: It happened that a family in Rhodes was in bad reputation. Rebbi sent Rebbi Romanus to investigate them. He investigated and found that a grandmother had been converted at less than three years and a day of age, and he declared them fit for the priesthood. Rav Hoshaia said, he declared them fit following Rebbi Simeon. Rebbi Zeїra said, here it is everybody’s opinion since Rebbi Zeїra said in the name of Rav Ada bar Ahava, Rebbi Judan brings it in the name of Rebbi Abbahu in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: The child of an adult is fit since it is a prohibition deduced from a positive commandment. (Leviticus.21.13">Lev. 21:13) “But he shall take a wife in her virginity,” which is a prohibition deduced from a positive commandment. Similarly, (Leviticus.21.14">Lev. 21:14) “only a virgin from among his people he shall take as wife,” not a proselyte. Any prohibition deduced from a positive commandment is a positive commandment. Rebbi Hoshaia objected: But the second generation of an Egyptian is under a prohibition deduced from a positive commandment! Rebbi Hoshaia turned around and said, a positive commandment for an Israel cannot be compared to a positive commandment for Cohanim. A positive commandment for an Israel implies a prohibition for everybody. A positive commandment for Cohanim implies a prohibition for Cohanim but a permission for Levites and Israel.