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יבמות 99:1
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Our Rabbis taught: A man must sometimes submit to halizah from his mother owing to an uncertainty; from his sister, owing to an uncertainty: and from his daughter, owing to an uncertainty'. For instance? If his mother and another woman had two male children, and then gave birth to two male children in a hiding place; and a son of the one mother married the mother of the other son while the son of the other mother married the mother of the first, and both died without issue, the one must submit to halizah from both women and the other must submit to halizah from both women. Thus it follows that each submits to halizah from his mother owing to an uncertainty. 'From his sister. owing to an uncertainty'; for instance? When his mother and another woman gave birth to two female children In a hiding place, and their brothers who were not from the same mother married them and died without issue, he must submit to halizah from both widows. Thus it follows that a man submits to halizah from his sister owing to an uncertainty. 'From his daughter, owing to an uncertainty'; for instance? When his wife and another woman gave birth to two female children in a hiding place, and their [husbands'] brothers married them and died without issue, the one [father] submits to halizah from his daughter owing to the uncertainty and the other [father] submits to halizah from his daughter owing to the uncertainty. It was taught: R. Meir said, A husband and wife may sometimes produce five different castes. How? If an Israelite bought a bondman and a bondwoman in the market, and these had two sons one of whom became a proselyte, the result is that one is a proselyte and the other is an idolater. If [subsequently] he made them perform the prescribed immersion for the purpose of slavery and then they cohabited with one another [and bore a son], behold here we have a proselyte, an idolater and a slave. If he subsequently emancipated the bondwoman and the slave cohabited with her [and had another son], behold here we have a proselyte, an idolater, a slave and a bastard. If he then emancipated both of them and made them marry one another, behold here we have a proselyte, an idolater, a slave, a bastard and an Israelite. What does this teach us? — That when an idolater or a slave cohabits with an Israelitish woman their child is a bastard. Our Rabbis taught: Sometimes a man sells his father to enable his mother to collect her kethubah. How? If an Israelite bought in the market a bondman and a bondwoman who had a son, and having emancipated the bondwoman he married her and bequeathed, in writing, all his estate to her son, the result is that this son sells his father in order to enable his mother to collect her kethubah. What does this teach us? — That all this [Baraitha represents the views of] R. Meir. and that a slave [is regarded as] movable property, such property being mortgaged for a kethubah! And if you prefer I might say. It is this that we were taught: A slave [is on the same footing as] real estate. MISHNAH. IF THE CHILD OF A WOMAN WAS INTERCHANGED WITH THE CHILD OF HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. AND WHEN THE INTERCHANGED CHILDREN GREW UP THEY TOOK WIVES AND THEN DIED, THE [OTHER] SONS OF THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW SUBMIT TO HALIZAH BUT MAY NOT CONTRACT LEVIRATE MARRIAGE. FOR [IN THE CASE OF EACH WIDOW AND BROTHER] IT IS UNCERTAIN WHETHER SHE IS THE WIFE OF HIS BROTHER OF THE WIFE OF HIS FATHER'S BROTHER. THE [OTHER] SONS OF THE GRANDMOTHER EITHER SUBMIT TO HALIZAH OR CONTRACT LEVIRATE MARRIAGE, SINCE [IN THE CASE OF EACH WIDOW AND BROTHER] THE ONLY DOUBT IS WHETHER SHE IS THE WIFE OF HIS BROTHER OR THE WIFE OF HIS BROTHER'S SON. IF THE UNTAINTED SONS DIED, THEN THE INTERCHANGED SONS SUBMIT [IN RESPECT OF THE WIDOWS] OF THE SONS OF THE GRANDMOTHER TO HALIZAH BUT MUST NOT CONTRACT THE LEVIRATE MARRIAGE. SINCE [IN THE CASE OF EACH WIDOW AND BROTHER] IT IS UNCERTAIN WHETHER SHE IS THE WIFE OF HIS BROTHER OR THE WIFE OF HIS FATHER'S BROTHER; [WHILE IN RESPECT OF THE WIDOWS] OF THE SONS OF THE DAUGHTER-IN- LAW ONE SUBMITS TO HALIZAH AND THE OTHER [MAY ALSO] CONTRACT THE LEVIRATE MARRIAGE. IF THE CHILD OF A PRIEST'S WIFE WAS INTERCHANGED WITH THE CHILD OF HER BONDWOMAN, BEHOLD BOTH MAY EAT TERUMAH AND RECEIVE ONE SHARE AT THE THRESHINGFLOOR
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