Commentary for Yevamot 116:12

נתארמלו או נתגרשו וכו': בעא מיניה רבי חייא בר יוסף משמואל כהן גדול שקדש את הקטנה ובגרה תחתיו

since he has no right<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By means of a similar act of divorce. ');">³¹</span> to confer the privilege elsewhere. And should you suggest that here also he has the right<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By means of a similar act of divorce. ');">³¹</span> to confer the privilege of eating in the case where she returns,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the house of her father, if she was the daughter of a priest. Cf. Lev. XXII, 13. ');">³²</span> [it may be retorted that] one who returns<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the house of her father, if she was the daughter of a priest. Cf. Lev. XXII, 13. ');">³²</span> severs her connection with him and resumes her relationship with her father's house;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Her regaining the privilege of eating terumah is due to her relationship not with him but with her father's family. ');">³³</span> but this woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To whom the letter of divorce was given. ');">³⁴</span> remains bound to him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since a letter of divorce does not sever the levirate bond. ');">³⁵</span> IF THEY BECAME WIDOWS OR WERE DIVORCED etc. R. Hiyya b. Joseph enquired of Samuel: If a High priest betrothed a minor, who became adolescent<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] v. infra p. 394 n. 7; perhaps of advanced age, when she is no more in possession of her full virgin powers (cf. Golds. a.l.). Such a woman is forbidden to a High priest by deduction from Lev. XXI, 13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. ');">³⁶</span> during her betrothal with him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'under him'. ');">³⁷</span>

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