Commentary for Bava Batra 241:8

רבה בר בר חנה אמר רבי יוחנן יום שהותר שבט בנימן לבא בקהל דכתיב (שופטים כא, א) ואיש ישראל נשבע במצפה לאמר איש ממנו לא יתן בתו לבנימן לאשה מאי דרוש ממנו ולא מבנינו

were given, but what is [the importance of] the fifteenth of Ab? — Rab Judah said in the name of Samuel: [It was] the day on which the tribes were allowed to intermarry with one another.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The prohibition on an heiress to marry into another tribe, in accordance with Num. XXXVI, 8, which requires an heiress to be 'wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father', was removed. The prohibition was held to apply only to the generation of those who entered the land, and to lapse when the last of these had died. ');">¹⁹</span> What was their exposition?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From what Scriptural text, and how, was it deduced that the prohibition was to lapse with the death of the first generation of those who entered the land? ');">²⁰</span> — This is the thing<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXXVI, 6. ');">²¹</span>

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