Study Yevamot folio 34B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
But didn’t Tamar become pregnant from the first act of sex, despite the fact that she was a virgin at the time of her sexual act with Judah? Rav Naḥman said: Tamar broke her hymen with her finger prior to sex, and it is due to this that she became pregnant from the first act of sex, as R' Yitzḥak s
The Talmud raises an objection from a baraita: After a woman gives birth, her husband penetrates inside and spills his semen outside for the entire 24 months during which the baby is breastfeeding, so that his wife not become pregnant, as that would terminate her milk production and the child might
The Talmud answers: The Tosefta actually means that what they did was similar to the act of Er and Onan in some ways, but not similar to the act of Er and Onan in other ways. The Talmud elaborates: It was similar to the act of Er and Onan in that there was a spilling of semen, as it is written: “And
The Talmud continues to clarify what took place: Granted, Onan engaged in unnatural sex with her, as it is written with regard to his act: “That he spilled it on the ground” (Genesis 38:9). However, from where do we derive that Er engaged in unnatural sex with her? Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: As it
A baraita states: The verse states: “And the woman, with whom a man shall lie giving seed, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening” (Leviticus 15:18). The extra term “with whom” comes to exclude a bride who does not become ritually impure; this is the statement o