Commentary for Kiddushin 147:9

דאבא שאול עדיפא מדרבן גמליאל דאי מהתם ה"א התם דרוב כשרין אצלה אבל היכא דרוב פסולין אצלה אימא לא צריכא אמר רבא הלכה כאבא שאול

- One is to declare her [the mother] fit; the other is to declare her daughter fit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Gamaliel refers to the woman herself, who has a presumptive status of fitness. Yet if she bare a daughter, a doubt is entertained, and the daughter may not marry a priest since there is no such presumption in her favour. But Abba Saul rules that the daughter too is fit.');">¹¹</span> Now, that is well on the view that he who declares her [the mother] fit, declares the daughter unfit.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Keth. 13b. Hence Abba Saul goes beyond R. Gamaliel.');">¹²</span> But on the view that he who declares her fit declares her daughter fit [too], what does Abba Saul come to teach us? - Abba Saul's [ruling] is more remarkable than R'Gamaliel's.

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