Yevamot 6:5 Related Passages

כֹּהֵן הֶדְיוֹט לֹא יִשָּׂא אַיְלוֹנִית, אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן יֶשׁ לוֹ אִשָּׁה וּבָנִים. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁיֶּשׁ לוֹ אִשָּׁה וּבָנִים, לֹא יִשָּׂא אַיְלוֹנִית, שֶׁהִיא זוֹנָה הָאֲמוּרָה בַתּוֹרָה. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים, אֵין זוֹנָה אֶלָּא גִיּוֹרֶת וּמְשֻׁחְרֶרֶת וְשֶׁנִּבְעֲלָה בְעִילַת זְנוּת:

A regular Cohein may not marry an eilonith (a woman who cannot bear) unless he has a wife and children. [The same is true of an Israelite. "Cohein" is stated only because of the demurral of R. Yehudah, who says that a Cohein, though he has a wife and children may not marry an eilonith, as opposed to an Israelite. The halachah is not in accordance with R. Yehudah.] R. Yehudah says: Even though he has a wife and children, he may not marry an eilonith, for she is the "zonah" referred to in the Torah (Leviticus 21:7). And the sages say that "zonah" is a proselyte, a freed maidservant, and a woman who had been lived with wantonly, [such as those interdicted by negative commandment or positive commandment, and, it goes without saying, those liable to kareth or judicial death penalty. But if one lives with an unmarried woman, he does not render her a zonah.]

Jerusalem Talmud Yevamot

MISHNAH: A private priest should not marry a she-ram98Who visibly is sterile. unless he has a wife and children. Rebbi Jehudah says, even one who has a wife and children should not marry a she-ram since she is the harlot mentioned in the Torah99Lev. 21:7,14. For R. Jehudah, every sex act which is not one of possible procreation is harlotry.. But the Sages say, a harlot is only a convert, a freedwoman, and one who copulated in harlotry100“Copulating in harlotry” is any sex act between people who either could not marry (close relatives, Gentiles, Slaves, or in adultery) or whose marriage would be sinful. The convert and the libertine will be excluded from marrying into the priesthood by their sexual contacts before becoming full Jews..
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