Talmud for Ketubot 1:10

אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹסֵי, מַעֲשֶׂה בְתִינוֹקֶת שֶׁיָּרְדָה לְמַלֹּאת מַיִם מִן הָעַיִן, וְנֶאֱנְסָה. אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן נוּרִי, אִם רֹב אַנְשֵׁי הָעִיר מַשִּׂיאִין לַכְּהֻנָּה, הֲרֵי זוֹ תִנָּשֵׂא לַכְּהֻנָּה:

R. Yossi said: It once happened that a child went to draw water from the well and was raped. R. Yochanan b. Nuri said: If the majority of the men of the city (are kasher and their daughters and widows may be) married to the priesthood, she may marry to the priesthood. [Even though one majority is generally sufficient, "pedigree" was accorded special status, and in this instance the rabbis required two majorities — the majority of (traveling) companies passing through there (as being pedigreed) and "the majority of the city." Women are not married ab initio to the priesthood without two majorities. And this is the halachah.]

Jerusalem Talmud Yevamot

It was stated⁷⁹Tosephta 6:2, quoted in Babli 37a.: “The first son could be High Priest, any second son possibly is a bastard⁸⁰If the first child is the son of the first husband, he certainly is in order. If he is the son of the levir, the first husband died childless and the levirate was legitimate. But any second child is the issue of a union which possibly is incestuous and punishable by divine extirpation.. Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob said, there is no such thing as a possible bastard.⁸¹He is considered a bastard, permitted to marry a bastard partner, since he cannot marry a legitimate Israel partner; cf. Qiddushin 4:3.” Rebbi Eliezer ben Jacob agrees in cases of doubt of Samaritans and desecrated persons⁸²As noted before, Samaritans have different interpretations of incest and marriage laws; a child of a marriage with a Samaritan is not automatically excluded but subject to inquiry. The text speaks of Samaritans since in talmudic times they were the only remnants of Sadducee traditions. {Today, of the other tribes of Sadducee traditions, Ethiopians have accepted rabbinic rules and Karaites are legitimate marriage partners if they accept rabbinic rules.}
“Desecrated” children are children of the marriage of a Cohen with a divorcee or a prostitute; such a marriage is not incestuous and stringent exclusionary rules do not apply.. This refers to what we have stated there: “Ten classes returned from Babylonia.⁸³Mishnah Qiddushin 4:1: “Ten classes returned from Babylonia, Cohanim, Levites, Israel, desecrated, proselytes, freed slaves, bastards, Gibeonites, people of unknown paternity, and foundlings. Cohanim, Levites, Israel may marry one another. Levites, Israel, desecrated, proselytes, and freed slaves, may marry one another. Proselytes, freed slaves, bastards, Gibeonites, people of unknown paternity, and foundlings, may marry one another.”
For R. Eliezer ben Jacob, bastards, people of unknown paternity, and foundlings, all form one group.
In Mishnah Ketubot 1:8, Rabban Gamliel and R. Eliezer hold that the unmarried mother of a child of unknown paternity is believed if she asserts that the father was one of the first six categories (or a Gentile). For them, the special category of “child of unknown paternity” does not exist since the child inherits the status of his mother.” 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.

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Jerusalem Talmud Yoma

Rebbi Zeˋira, Rebbi Ḥiyya in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: If a wall collapsed in a dead-end street populated by Gentiles, but where one Jew lived, one digs there because of the Jew¹⁴⁵Also quoted in Ketubot 1:10, Note 269.. How far¹⁴⁶Since in the Mishnah it is stated that a live person has to be dug out completely, the question is how much of a person has to be uncovered in order to determine his death.? Two Amoraim. One said, up to his nose; the other said, up to his navel. He who said, up to his nose, about one who was healthy; he who said up to his navel, about one who was intoxicated¹⁴⁷Reading רוי for רבי..

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