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בדוכתא דקביעי דאמר רבי אבא בר כהנא (מלכים ב יח, יא) וינחם בחלח ובחבור נהר גוזן וערי מדי חלח זה חלזון וחבור

Rab said: As, for instance, Humania towards Pum Nahara.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Both were localities in Babylon. The former, inhabited by Greeks, was a constant source of annoyance to the latter the inhabitants of which were poor Israelites. Humania was below the city of Ctesifon and near it was Pum Nahara. ');">¹⁶</span> Rab Judah said in the name of R. Assi: If at the present time a heathen betroths [a daughter in Israel], note must be taken of such betrothal since it may be that he is of the ten tribes.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whom Shalmaneser had carried away into captivity (II Kings XVIII, 11) where they intermarried with the heathens. Children born from such marriages are bastards, and R. Assi holds that a bastard's betrothal is valid. ');">¹⁷</span> But, surely, anything separated [from a heterogeneous group] is re garded as having been separated from the majority!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if it is not known to which group or class a person or object that comes from a mixed multitude belongs, it is always assumed that the unit came from the majority. Now, since the ten tribes represent only a minority of the heathens, it should be assumed that the betrothal was not made by one of the ten tribes but by a heathen. ');">¹⁸</span> — [R. Assi's statement refers] to places where they have settled;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And formed a majority of the inhabitants (Tosaf. s.v. [H] a.l.). Rashi: A group which is in a settled condition, (kabu'a, v. Keth. 15a and Glos.), though it is a minority, is deemed to represent a half of the whole multitude. ');">¹⁹</span> for R. Abba b. Kahana said: And he put them in Halah and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and the cities of the Medes;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Kings XVIII, 11. ');">²⁰</span> Halah is Halwan,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So Kid. 72b. Cur. edd., [H]. Halwan is a locality in Assyria. V. Kid., Sonc. ed. p. 367, n. 4. ');">²¹</span> and Habor

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