Commentary for Yevamot 108:10

אלא המערה בבהמה מהו אמר ליה אם אינו ענין להעראה דכתיבא גבי אחות אב ואחות אם דאתיא בהקישא מדרבי יונה תנהו ענין להעראה דבהמה

is forbidden under the penalty of <i>kareth</i> during the lifetime of her husband. What need, however, was there to mention the first stage in connection with a father's sister or a mother's sister?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who also are included among the others and subject, therefore, to the same restrictions and penalties. Cf. supra p. 362, n. 8. ');">²⁵</span> — For an inference like that mentioned in the following question which Rabina addressed to Raba: What is the law if a man passed the first stage in pederasty? [You ask,] 'What is the law in pederasty'? Surely it is written, As with womankind!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVIII, 22. Since pederasty is compared to natural intercourse it is obviously subject to the same restrictions and penalties, including that of the first stage! ');">²⁶</span>

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