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It is in accordance with the opinion of R' Elazar, who says: With regard to an unmarried man who had sex with an unmarried woman not for the purpose of marriage, he has thereby caused her to become a prostitute. It is for this reason that her payment is prohibited to be sacrificed on the altar. By
The Talmud answers that it was necessary for the tanna to cite the example of a widow who is paid for having sex with a High Priest, as it might enter your mind to say: Since the case of an unmarried man who had sex with an unmarried woman, which is not a forbidden relationship by Torah law, is the
§ The Mishnah teaches: With regard to one who says to another: Here is this lamb and in return your female slave will lie with my slave and have sex with him, R' Meir, or according to a different version of the text, R' Yehuda HaNasi, says: The lamb’s halakhic status is not that of payment to a pros
The Talmud asks: If that is so, what is the reason for the opinion of R' Yehuda HaNasi, who maintains that this payment is not prohibited? Shmuel bar Rav Yitzḥak said: Actually, the Mishnah is not employing a euphemism, and the master meant: My slave. And as for the difficulty that a female slave i
The Talmud asks: If so, what is the reason for the ruling of the Rabbis? After all, a female slave is permitted to a Hebrew slave. The Talmud answers: Here we are dealing with a case where the Hebrew slave does not have a wife and children, and in that situation the Canaanite female slave is not