Commentary for Kiddushin 18:18
ולרבא דאמר בר אהינא אסברה לי (דברים כד, א) כי יקח איש אשה ובעלה קידושין המסורין לביאה הוו קידושין קידושין שאין מסורין לביאה לא הוו קידושין מאי איכא למימר
it completely unites.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'brings in.' Yet it might be that money betrothal must be followed by cohabitation.');"><sup>21</sup></span> And R'Johanan: How does he utilize this, and hath intercourse with her? - He needs that [to shew]: she [a wife] is acquired by cohabitation, but not a Hebrew bondmaid.
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
Rava uses this same verse for yet another halakhah. For kiddushin to be valid, they must be able to be followed by legal intercourse. This is a case which we will learn later in the tractate in which a man married one of two sisters but does not know which one. He cannot have sex with either of them because either of them might be his sister’s wife. Therefore, the kiddushin are not valid.
But now we return to our midrashic question—how can Rava learn all three things from one verse.
But now we return to our midrashic question—how can Rava learn all three things from one verse.
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