Commentary for Yevamot 159:14

אמר רבי אבהו סימני סריס ואילונית ובן שמנה אין עושין בהן מעשה עד שיהו בן עשרים

a woman who is incapable of procreation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The seducer of whom is also exempt from the fine mentioned (supra note 2) on the ground that, as she did not produce the required hairs, she was regarded at the time as a minor. V. Keth. 35b. ');">³⁸</span> should be entitled to a fine!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because, since it was later established that she was sterile, she should be regarded (cf. supra note 1) as having been sterile, and so also of age, retrospectively. ');">³⁹</span> — Abaye replied: She passes from her minority [directly] into adolescence.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The former age is twelve years and one day; the latter is twelve and a half plus one day. In the intervening age a girl is described as [H] damsel or maiden; and it is during this period ([H]) that she is entitled to the fine mentioned. The sterile woman does in fact become of age retrospectively, as Rab laid down, but she assumes the status of the adolescent woman who is not entitled to the fine. ');">⁴⁰</span>

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