Un Sumo Sacerdote ocasionalmente puede descalificar. ¿Cómo es eso? [Si] la hija de un sacerdote [estaba casada] con un israelita, y ella le dio una hija, y esa hija fue y se casó con un sacerdote, y le dio un hijo, él [ese hijo] es elegible para ser un Sumo Sacerdote, para párate y ministra en el altar; él confiere el derecho a comer [ Terumah ] a su madre pero descalifica a la madre de su madre, quien bien puede decir: "Que no haya como mi nieto el Sumo Sacerdote que me descalifica de comer Terumah ".
Jerusalem Talmud Ketubot
“A Samaritan.” That follows him who said, a Samaritan is a like full Jew. But for him who says that a Samaritan is like a Gentile, it is not so. As they disagreed20Cf. Demay 3:4, Note 98; Berakhot 7:1, Note 59.: A Samaritan is like a Gentile, the words of Rebbi. Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel said, a Samaritan is like a Jew in every respect. Even if you say, a Samaritan is like a Gentile, why are Samaritans disqualified? Not because of a Gentile and a slave21Since 2K.17, 24ff. clearly states that the settlers from Babylon, Kuta, etc. at the start were idolators; if they intermarried with the remainders of the Israelite populations there, their descendants all acquired the status of descendants of Gentiles (or slaves) from Israelite mothers.? If a Gentile or a slave has intercourse with a Jewish woman, the child is a bastard22This is the argument of R. Joḥanan and R. Simeon ben Laqish in Yebamot 7:6, Note 129; it is rejected there since the child of a Jewish woman from a Gentile, together with her mother, is disqualified from priesthood but not a bastard (Notes 130,131).. But a bastard girl can claim a fine! For restrictions or family relations you consider him a Gentile or a slave who had intercourse with a Jewish woman; the child is a bastard. But for a fine you consider this as a Jew having intercourse with a Gentile woman, in which case the child is a Gentile23The separation from Samaritans is purely one of practice, with no theoretical basis, and disapproved of by the Mishnah. In the Babli, 29b/30a, the argument (attributed to R. Meïr) is rejected, in order not to reward a sinner (the rapist or seducer.).
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Jerusalem Talmud Gittin
Why are Samaritans disqualified120Why does one not intermarry with Samaritans?? Rebbi Joḥanan said, because they are lions’ proselytes121The originally Gentile part of the population of Samaria adopted the worship “of the local god” because they were attacked by lions, 2K. 17:24–41. In the Babli, Qiddušin 75b, this is identified as the teaching of R. Ismael.. But if somebody converted not for Heaven’s sake and then converted for Heaven’s sake, does one not accept him122That argument may have had validity in the first few generations after the destruction of Samaria, but in talmudic times the Samaritans had been monotheists for at least 700 years.? Rebbi Joḥanan in the name of Rebbi Eleazar123In Jebamot 7:6 (Note 129), “R. Ismael”. In the Babli, loc.cit., identified as teaching of R. Aqiba.: Because the child is a bastard if a Gentile or a slave have intercourse with a Jewish woman124Assuming that the deportees from Cutha and Media who were resettled in Samaria were mostly male. When they intermarried with local Jewish women, in this opinion the children were all bastards.. But did not Rebbi Aqiba say, they are genuine proselytes125Even if the preceding opinion were generally accepted, which it is not, it would be irrelevant concerning Samaritans. Agreed to in the Babli, loc.cit.? Because they require levirate marriage from the preliminarily married and free the definitively married126Jebamot 1, Notes 192–196. Pharisaic tradition frees the preliminarily married woman and obligates the definitively married one. The Samaritan ruling had its partisans among the rabbinic school of Shammai (Jebamot 1:6, Note 193.). But do not the rabbis say, there is no bastard from a sister-in-law127Even if a childless widow flouts the rules and marries an unrelated man without ḥalîṣah, the child is not a bastard and can marry in the congregation (Mishnah Jebamot 4:15). Therefore even a Samaritan who is the offspring of a rabbinically forbidden marriage should be an acceptable marriage partner.? Because they are not conversant with the fine points in writing bills of divorce128There could be women divorced according to Samaritan rules who would not be considered divorced by rabbinic rules and, therefore, their children in a second marriage would be bastards not eligible for marriage with Jews.. But does not Rabban Gamliel accept their bills of divorce106Kafr ‘Uthnay, a village near Megiddo on the Southern border of Jewish Galilee (Mishnah 7:7). While the Mishnah speaks only of a Samaritan witness, Rabban Gamliel accepted two Samaritans.? Rebbi Jacob bar Idi in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Because they intermingled with the priests of the High Places: “He chose priests from the borderline of the people,1291K. 12:31. The root קצה “to be distant, of the elite” of מקצת is identified with קוץ, קצץ “to cut, to chop off”, one of whose derivatives is קוֹץ “thorn”. (The same explanation is in the Babli, loc.cit., of R. Joḥanan following R. Ismael.) In any case, there is no reason to exclude marriages with Samaritans other than general convention; but cf. Demay 3:4, Note 98.”. Rebbi Ila said, from the “thorns” of the people, i. e., from the disqualified of the people.