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שבת 136:2

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If she is an Israelite's wife,  she must perform halizah;  but if she is a priest's wife,  she does not perform halizah.  But R. Sherabia  ruled in Raba's name: Both the one and the other must perform halizah. Rabina said to R. Sherabia: In the evening Raba did rule thus, but the [following] morning he retracted.  You would permit her,  he retorted: would that you permitted forbidden fat! R. JUDAH PERMITS, etc. R. Shizbi said in R. Hisda's name: Not in respect of everything did R. Judah rule [that] an hermaphrodite is a male; for if you do say thus, in the case of vows of valuation  let him be subject to valuation — And how do we know that he is not subject to 'valuation'? Because it was taught: '[And thy estimation shall be of] the male [from twenty years old, etc.]:  but not a tumtum  or an hermaphrodite. You might think that he does not come within the valuation of a man, yet he does come within the valuation of a woman; therefore it is stated, … the male … and if it be a female:  a certain male, a certain female, but not a tumtum or a hermaphrodite'. —                                              ʰʲ