Reference for Yevamot 30:14

או דלמא איכא למיפרך מה לאלמנה שהיא עצמה מתחללת ואמר להו צרות מתיירא אני

is nevertheless tainted,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. note 8. ');">²⁵</span> [how much more so the son of a rival]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cur. edd., 'etc.' ');">²⁶</span> who is forbidden to all.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A rival is forbidden to Israelites as well as priests. ');">²⁷</span> They asked him concerning rivals and he answered them about the sons of the rivals! — They really asked him two questions: 'What is the law concerning the rivals? And if some ground could be found in their case in favour of the ruling of Beth Hillel, what is the law according to Beth Shammai in regard to the sons of the rivals, [who married]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Strangers without previous halizah with the levirs. ');">²⁸</span> in accordance with the ruling of Beth Hillel'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Are the children of such marriages, which are forbidden by a negative precept, disqualified from the priesthood? ');">²⁹</span> What practical difference is there?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the halachah is according to Beth Hillel. ');">³⁰</span> — That a solution may be found, according to Beth Hillel, for the question of the child<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A daughter. ');">³¹</span> of a man who remarried his divorced wife.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After she had been married to another man. Such remarriage is also forbidden (v. supra note 2) by a negative precept (V. Deut. XXIV, 1-4.) ');">³²</span> Do we<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In this case according to Beth Hillel, as in the case of a rival's son according to Beth Shammai; both cases coming under the prohibition of a negative precept. ');">³³</span> apply the inference a minori ad majus, arguing thus: 'If the son of a widow who was married to a High Priest, who is not forbidden to all,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 84, n. 10. ');">³⁴</span> is nevertheless tainted,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 84, n. 8. ');">³⁵</span> how much more so the son of her<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A rival. ');">³⁶</span> who is forbidden to all';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A rival is forbidden to Israelites as well as to priests. ');">³⁷</span> or is it possible to refute the argument, thus: 'The case of the widow is different because she herself is profaned'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the death of the High Priest to whom she was unlawfully married she may not marry any more even an ordinary priest, and as she was a priest's daughter she is henceforth forbidden to eat terumah. On a woman, however, who was remarried after divorce no new restrictions are imposed. ');">³⁸</span> And he said to them, 'With reference to the rivals I am afraid;<a rel="footnote" href="#15b_39">³⁹</a>

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