Mesorat%20hashas for Sanhedrin 138:3
והא מומתין על ידה קתני בבא עליה אביה
Our Rabbis taught: <font>If a woman sported lewdly with her young son [a minor], and he committed the first stage of cohabitation with her, — Beth Shammai say, he thereby renders her unfit to the priesthood.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., she becomes a harlot, whom a priest may not marry (Lev. XXI, 7). ');"><sup>4</sup></span></font> Beth Hillel declare her fit. R. Hiyya the son of Rabbah b. Nahmani said in R. Hisda's name; others state, R. Hisda said in Ze'iri's name: <font>All agree that the connection of a boy aged nine years and a day is a real connection; whilst that of one less than eight years is not:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that if he was nine years and a day or more, Beth Hillel agree that she is invalidated from the priesthood; whilst if he was less that eight, Beth Shammai agree that she is not. ');"><sup>5</sup></span></font>
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