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And what does R' Akiva respond to this claim? The Talmud answers: If so, that the verse serves to render it prohibited for a priest to become impure to bury a limb, then let God write: “And for his sister a virgin, that is near to him, that has had no husband, for her,” and then be silent. Why do
And how does R' Yishmael explain the additional phrase? Since the verse wrote: “For her,” it also wrote: “May he become impure,” for the same reason as was taught by the school of R' Yishmael. As the school of R' Yishmael taught: Every passage in the Torah that was stated and repeated, was repeated
The Talmud discusses the third dispute between R' Yishmael and R' Akiva. The verse states: “Of them may you take your bondmen forever” (Leviticus 25:46), i.e., the halakha that one keeps his Canaanite slave forever, is optional; this is the statement of R' Yishmael. One is not enjoined against ema
What is the reason of R' Yishmael? Since it is written with regard to Canaanites: “You shall save alive nothing that breathes” (Deuteronomy 20:16), it was necessary to write: “Of them may you take your bondmen forever” (Leviticus 25:46), as well, in order to permit one from any of the other, non-Ca
This is as it is taught in a baraita: From where is it derived that in the case of one from any of the other, non-Canaanite nations who had sex with a Canaanite woman, and she bore him a child, that you are permitted to purchase the child as a slave? The verse states: “Moreover, of the children of t