A yavam does not cause (a yevamah) to eat terumah [when she is still awaiting yibum, it being written (Leviticus 22:11): "And a Cohein, if he acquire a soul, the acquisition of his money," and she is the "acquisition of his brother.] If she spent six months before her husband, [six of these twelve months set aside for her after having been solicited by the husband] and six months before the yavam, or even all of them before the husband and six of them before the yavam, or even all of them before the husband and one of them before the yavam [Even though most of them were before the husband, there is a double reservation here: a) he was not obligated to feed her in his lifetime; b) even if he was obligated to feed her in his lifetime, she did not eat after his death, the "acquisition of his money," having been dissolved (but if all of them were before the husband, she could at least have eaten in his lifetime)], or all before the yavam less one day before the husband [and, it goes without saying, if all of them were before the yavam], she does not eat terumah. This is (in accordance with) the first Mishnah [that if the time arrives, she eats terumah]. The beth-din after them ruled: A woman does not eat terumah until she enters the chuppah. [For we fear lest he find a blemish in her, so that she be found to be a "stranger" (to the priesthood) retroactively and his "purchase" be a mistaken one. And according to the first Mishnah we do not entertain this apprehension. Neither do we fear that she might give her brothers and sisters to drink (a cup of terumah), for he (her husband) sets aside a place for her, for which reason they permitted her to eat terumah when the time arrived.]
Tosefta Ketubot
The [legal] power of a wife is greater than the power of a yevamah (one whose husband died with no children and now is in a legal bond with her former brother-in-law which either ends in marriage or halitzah) [in some respects], and the power of a yevamah is greater than the power of a wife [in other respects]. The power of a wife is stronger—for a wife eats terumah [if her husband is a kohen] as soon as she enters the bridal chamber, even before she has had sex—which is not true for the yevamah. The power of the yevamah is stronger—for a man who has sex with his yevamah (i.e. his dead brother's wife), whether intentionally or unintentionally, whether forced or willingly, even if she is in her father's house, he acquires [her as a wife]—which is not true of a wife [with whom a man would need to have sex with the purpose of betrothal].
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Tosefta Ketubot
The adult woman is like (sic!) one claimed—they give her 12 months. If she were a minor, either she or her father is able to delay [the marriage until she is of majority age]. Rabbi Tarfon says: They give her everything terumah [if she is claimed by a priest and the time limit of 12 months is up and they are still not married, she eats entirely terumah]. When does this apply? From betrothal [i.e. when the claiming 12 months is up, she is betrothed but still not married], but from marriage, Rabbi Tarfon agrees that they give her half hullin and half terumah. When does this apply? With a kohen's daughter [married to a] kohen, but an Israelite's daughter to a kohen, everyone agrees they raise all of her food from hullin. Rabbi Yehudah ben Betera says: Two parts terumah and one hullin. Rabbi Yehudah says: She should sell the terumah and buy with its value hullin. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Any place where they [the sages] mention "terumah", he gives double hullin. This was the original mishnah. Our rabbis said: A wife who is an Israelite's daughter doesn't eat terumah until she enters the bridal chamber, and a yevamah doesn't [eat terumah] until she has sex [with her levir]. If her husband dies [after the time of claiming has passed], he inherits her. Said Rabbi Menahem ben Nafah in the name of Rabbi Liezer Ha-Kappar: A case, that Rabbi Tarfon who betrothed 300 wives for them to eat terumah, for they were years of famine. But Yohanan ben Bagbag already sent to Rabbi Yehudah ben Beterah to Netzivin, he said to him: I heard about you that you say a betrothed Israelite's daughter betrothed to a kohen can eat terumah. He replied to him and said to him: I had assumed that you were an expert in the chambers of Torah, but you don't know how to do a kal va-homer! Just as a Canaanite slavegirl, whose sex [with a kohen] does not acquire her to allow her to eat terumah, isn't it logical that money would acquire her to eat terumah!? But what can I do? For the Hakhamim said: A betrothed Israelite's daughter can't eat terumah until she enters the bridal chamber. If she dies, her father inherits her.
