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in accordance with the ruling of the Mishnah: The rabbis give her 4 nights, then he should have given her longer, as we learned in the Mishnah that according to Beit Hillel the blood may be attributed to the torn hymen until the wound heals.
Rather, you will say that he gave her these 4 nights all during her days as a young woman. Are there 12 months when one has the status of a young woman? But didn’t Shmuel say: The difference in time between becoming a young woman and becoming a grown woman is only 6 months? And if you would say tha
Rather, you will suggest that R' Yehuda HaNasi gave her two days during her days as a minor, and he gave her two days during her days as a young woman. This too is difficult, as Rav Ḥinnana bar Shelamya asked Rav: With regard to a young girl who married before she reached puberty, and then her ti
And Rav said to him: All the acts of sex that you engage in while she is still too young are considered as only one act of sex, and the remainder, i.e., 3 more acts of sex, complete the total number of 4 nights. If so, R' Yehuda HaNasi could not have given her two nights as a minor, since at most
Rather, you will suggest that he gave her one night during her days as a minor, and two nights during her days as a young woman, and one night during her days as a grown woman. But this is also difficult: Granted, if you say that we generally give a grown woman more than one night, then one can un