Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Yevamot 113:5

אביי לא אמר כרבא קנין דאישות מקנין דאישות ילפינן ולא ילפינן קנין דאישות מקנין דעבדים

[<i>terumah</i>] upon his Canaanitish bondmen and bondwomen.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As he may confer the privilege in that case he may also confer it upon the woman he betrothed. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> Abaye did not give the same explanation as Raba because matrimonial <i>kinyan</i> may be inferred from matrimonial <i>kinyan</i>, but matrimonial <i>kinyan</i> may not be inferred from the <i>kinyan</i> of slaves. And Raba does not give the same explanation as Abaye because there<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where the incapacity occurred after marriage. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> it is different, since she has already been eating it previously.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prior to the man's incapacity. This, therefore, provides no proof that a man who is already incapacitated can also confer the privilege. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> And Abaye?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How does he reconcile the difference in two cases? ');"><sup>18</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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