Man with a Crushed Testicle

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HALAKHAH: “Who is injured in his lower parts,” etc. “Injured,” I would have said in his eye. The verse says “discharge pipe”, 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 nose! 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…

Jerusalem Talmud Yevamot 8:2:2-3

Whenever we have used the term "unacceptable" in this context, the implication is that [the malady] was not caused by the hand of heaven, e.g., [his testicles] were severed by a man or a dog, he was struck by a sharp end, or the like. If, however, he was born with maimed testicles or a severed member, or without testicles, he became ill because of a bodily ailment and these organs ceased to function, or an ulcer arose in them that caused them to waste away or be severed, he is permitted to marry among the Jewish people. For all of these blemishes are caused by the hand of heaven.

Mishneh Torah, Forbidden Intercourse 16:9

With regard to both a man with crushed testicles or with other wounds to his genitals [petzua dakka] and one whose penis has been severed [kerut shofkha], it is prohibited for them to marry a woman who was born Jewish. If they are priests they and their slaves may partake of teruma, as this condition does not disqualify them or their property. However, their wives may not partake of teruma, because if a priest has relations with his wife after suffering his injury, he renders her a ḥalala…

Yevamot 70a:13-14

"and a kruth shafchah": wherever the organ is cut. R. Yishmael the son of R. Yochanan b. Beroka said: I heard in Kerem Beyavneh that a man who has only one (testicle) is a saris chamah (a eunuch from the time of seeing the sun. i.e., one born without visible testicles. [This has various halachic implications.]) What is the difference between a petzua dakah and a kruth shafchah? A petzuah dakah can recover (from the injury); a kruth shafchah cannot. This is one of the "halachoth" of doctors.

Sifrei Devarim 247:2-3

MISHNA: A man with crushed testicles or with other wounds to his genitals and one whose penis has been severed are permitted to marry a female convert or an emancipated maidservant, and they are prohibited only from entering into the congregation and marrying a woman who was born Jewish, as it is stated: “A man wounded with crushed testicles or a severed penis shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord” (Deuteronomy 23:2). GEMARA: They raised a dilemma before Rav Sheshet: What is the halakha governing a…

Yevamot 76a:10-12

§ It is taught in the mishna: Who is deemed a man with crushed testicles? The Sages taught in a baraita: Who is deemed a man with crushed testicles? It is anyone whose testicles have been wounded, even if only one of them. Furthermore, a man is considered to have crushed testicles not only if they have been wounded, but even if they have been punctured, or have decayed as the result of an injury, or are partly deficient for some other reason…

Yevamot 75a:17-75b:2

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