Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 153:9

תנו רבנן לא יחלל זרעו אין לי אלא זרעו היא עצמה מנין אמרת קל וחומר מה זרעו שלא עבר עבירה מתחלל היא שעברה עבירה אינו דין שמתחללת

Our Rabbis taught 'He shall not profane his seed:' I know [it] only [of] his seed; how do I know it of herself?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That she is forbidden to a priest, after his death.');">¹⁴</span> - Say, a minori: if his seed, that committed no sin, is profaned, she, who commits sin, how much the more so that she is profaned! Let him himself refute it: he commits sin, yet he is not profaned!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [A priest who marries a woman forbidden to him is not disqualified from the priesthood, v. Bek. ');">¹⁵</span> As for himself, that is because he is not profaned in all other cases;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even if he cohabits with a bondmaid or a harlot, he is not degraded from the priesthood.');">¹⁶</span>

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