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Mishnah: These are the cases of young women for whom there is a fine paid to their fathers by one who rapes them: One who has sex with a mamzeret, or with a Gibeonite woman [netina], who are given [netunim] to the service of the people and the altar (see Joshua 9:27), or with a Samaritan woman [ku
Similarly, one who has sex with his sister, i.e., he rapes her, or with his father’s sister, or with his mother’s sister, or with his wife’s sister, or with his brother’s wife, or with his father’s brother’s wife after they divorced, or with a menstruating woman, there is a fine paid. Although ther
Talmud: The Talmud wonders: Is it these young women with flawed lineage listed in the Mishnah, for whom there is a fine paid if they are raped, while for young women with unflawed lineage, no, there is no fine? The Talmud explains that this is what the tanna is saying: These are the young women wi
The Mishnah teaches the halakha with regard to a young woman, from which the Talmud infers: With regard to a young woman, yes, one is liable to pay the fine if he rapes her, but with regard to a minor, no, one is not liable to pay the fine. Who is the tanna who maintains that one is liable for rap
Rav Yehuda said that Rav said: The tanna is R' Meir, as it is taught in a baraita: With regard to a minor from the age of one day old until she grows two pubic hairs, there is the possibility of sale for her, as her father may sell her as a Hebrew female slave, but there is no fine paid for her if