Commentary for Kiddushin 20:15

But what can I do, seeing that the Sages ruled: An arusah, the daughter of an Israelite, may not partake of terumah until she enters huppah, on account of 'Ulla's statement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra ');">¹⁹</span> And [Johanan] B'Bag Bag?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Does he not accept this a minori deduction?');">²⁰</span> - In the case of a Gentile bondmaid he omits nothing of her acquisition;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Once he gives the money, she is absolutely his.');">²¹</span> but here he has left undone part of her acquisition.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After intercourse she still lacks huppah before he ranks as her heir and may defile himself on her account.');">²²</span> Rabina said: By Biblical law he was quite certain that she may eat, and it was only by Rabbinical law that he [R'Johanan B'Bag Bag] sent word to him [that she is forbidden], and he sent thus to him: I have heard of you that you rule: An arusah, the daughter of an Israelite, may eat of terumah, and you disregard the possibility of nullification.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Through a bodily defect discovered in the woman, which may invalidate the betrothal. Hence this has no bearing on the question of the status conferred by intercourse, since all admit that even an arusah may, Biblically speaking, eat terumah.');">²³</span> He sent back: And do you not rule likewise? I am certain that you are well versed in the profundities of the Torah, [and able] to infer a minori. Do you not know: if a Gentile bondmaid, whose intercourse does not permit her to eat terumah, yet her money does, and we do not fear the possibility of nullification;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A bodily defect which may entitle the priest to cancel the purchase.');">²⁴</span> then this one [sc. an arusah], whose intercourse permits her to eat terumah,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Since the arus would not have had intercourse with her without first making enquiries concerning her (Tosaf.) .]');">²⁵</span> surely her money does, and we may disregard the possibility of nullification. But what can I do, seeing that the Sages ruled: An arusah, the daughter of an Israelite, may not partake of terumah

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