Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Yevamot 113:2

וכי תימא הכא נמי יש לו להאכיל בבת גרים והא מיבעיא בעי לה רבי יוחנן מרבי אושעיא ולא פשיט ליה

And were you to reply that here also he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The incapacitated priest, since he is only forbidden to enter into the assembly of the Lord (Deut. XXIII, 2), i.e., to marry a Jewess, but he is permitted to marry a proselyte. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> is entitled to confer upon the daughter of proselytes<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who is not included in the assembly of the Lord. V. supra n. 7. ');"><sup>6</sup></span> the right of eating, surely [it may be retorted] this very question was addressed by R. Johanan to R. Oshaia<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> who gave him no answer!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As to whether such an incapacitated priest may confer upon the daughter of a proselyte the right of eating terumah. Since no answer was given, there is no proof that the right may be conferred at all. The difficulty consequently remains: How could the case of the incapacitated priest who can never confer the right upon others be inferred from the case of one who is, in certain circumstances, entitled to confer such a right? ');"><sup>8</sup></span>

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

Let us now return to the four aspects of Torah which address themselves to four categories of the Jewish people. These are known as 1) עם, 2) קהל, 3) עדה, and 4) קהל השם. The first category which shares a certain level of intelligence includes the ערב רב, the mixed multitude of nations that became fellow travelers when the Jewish people left Egypt. By joining the Jewish people, they acquired a degree of holiness over and beyond their original intellectual capacity. The category of קהל is spiritually superior to that of עם. Our sages say that a community of proselytes, קהל גרים, is called a קהל, meaning that they are capable of understanding the commandments and their reasons (Yevamot 57a). עדה is a level superior to קהל, a level of people who are able to understand the meaning of His Holy Name, קהל ה', finally, is a reference to people whose soul is of such a level that it can re-unite with the original soul from which it had been parted.
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