Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Nedarim 180:9

אמר רב פפא בדיק לן רבא אשת כהן שנאנסה יש לה כתובה או אין לה כתובה כיון דאונס לגבי כהן כרצון לגבי ישראל דמי אין לה כתובה או דילמא מצי אמרה ליה אנא הא חזינא

Raba said: She may not eat, for she can eat hullin.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' None will observe that she consistently refrains from eating terumah and no aspersions will be cast upon her children. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> Raba said: Yet R. Shesheth admits that if she was widowed,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi and Tosaf. read: or divorced. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> she may not eat: is his reason aught but that she should not cast a stigma upon her children? But if she was widowed or divorced [and she ceases to eat of <i>terumah</i>], it will be said, It is only now that she was seduced.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus her refraining leaves the honour of her children unaffected. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> R. Papa said, Raba tested us: If the wife of a priest was forcibly ravished,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the wife of an Israelite is seduced: if voluntarily, she becomes forbidden to him; if forcibly, she remains permitted. But the wife of a priest is forbidden in both cases. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> does she receive her <i>Kethubah</i> or not? Since forcible seduction in respect to a priest is as voluntary infidelity in respect to an Israelite, she does not receive her <i>Kethubah</i>;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As is the case of an Israelite's wife who committed adultery of her own free will. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> or perhaps she can plead, 'I personally am fit;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Having been forcibly ravished, she has committed no wrong. ');"><sup>20</sup></span>

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