תלמוד על עדיות 7:9
Jerusalem Talmud Gittin
MISHNAH: Rebbi Joḥanan ben Gudguedah testified about a deaf-mute girl140She is presumed not to be able to read and write. Since she has no means of communication with the outside world, she is incompetent in law. She herself could not conclude a marriage valid by biblical standards, but her father can marry her off when underage in a biblically valid marriage. Cf. Yebamot, Mishnah 14:3, Notes 20–24.
“Testified” usually means a statement of practice from Temple times accepted by the Jabneh Academy as binding. who was married off by her father, that she must be divorced by a bill of divorce141Since a divorce is a unilateral act by the husband as long as she is able to receive the bill. An insane woman, who cannot keep her bill of divorce, cannot be divorced., and about an underage girl who was married to a Cohen142Even if the father had died and she was married in a rabbinically valid marriage by her mother or brothers, from which she may walk out without formality before she reaches adulthood (cf. Yebamot 1:2, Note 38)., that she may eat heave and her husband inherits from her if she dies, and about a stolen log which was used to build a house143In Babylonian versions of the Mishnah, it is added “for the benefit of repentant sinners”, as explained in the Halakhah., that [the owner] has to take the value144He cannot sue the robber for restitution of the original log., and about a purification sacrifice of a stolen animal145It is a sinful act to use any stolen or robbed animal as a sacrifice. If such a sacrifice would be declared invalid, no Cohen would volunteer to serve in the Temple for fear of unwittingly committing the sin of eating from an invalid sacrifice. Therefore, a sacrifice can be rejected only if it is known that it was obtained by illegal means. which was not known in public, that it atones because of the order of the altar.
“Testified” usually means a statement of practice from Temple times accepted by the Jabneh Academy as binding. who was married off by her father, that she must be divorced by a bill of divorce141Since a divorce is a unilateral act by the husband as long as she is able to receive the bill. An insane woman, who cannot keep her bill of divorce, cannot be divorced., and about an underage girl who was married to a Cohen142Even if the father had died and she was married in a rabbinically valid marriage by her mother or brothers, from which she may walk out without formality before she reaches adulthood (cf. Yebamot 1:2, Note 38)., that she may eat heave and her husband inherits from her if she dies, and about a stolen log which was used to build a house143In Babylonian versions of the Mishnah, it is added “for the benefit of repentant sinners”, as explained in the Halakhah., that [the owner] has to take the value144He cannot sue the robber for restitution of the original log., and about a purification sacrifice of a stolen animal145It is a sinful act to use any stolen or robbed animal as a sacrifice. If such a sacrifice would be declared invalid, no Cohen would volunteer to serve in the Temple for fear of unwittingly committing the sin of eating from an invalid sacrifice. Therefore, a sacrifice can be rejected only if it is known that it was obtained by illegal means. which was not known in public, that it atones because of the order of the altar.
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