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Didn’t R' Shimon say: If she was fit for a High Priest, her brother must become impure for her, and if she was not fit for a High Priest, her brother may not become impure for her? A divorced woman is not fit for a High Priest even if she had been only betrothed before her divorce. The Talmud a
The Talmud asks: If so, a woman whose hymen was torn accidentally should also be included. The Talmud responds that the term: Who is near, which is written in the singular, includes only one additional case and not two. The Talmud asks: And what did you see to render forbidden a woman whose hymen
The baraita cites R' Yosei and R' Shimon as holding that a priest may not become impure for his sister who was betrothed and then divorced, and it cites only R' Shimon as holding that he may not become impure for his sister who was a grown woman. Based on this, the Talmud asks: From the fact that R'
The Talmud asks: Haven’t you already derived the halakha of a betrothed woman from that phrase? The Talmud answers: R' Yosei learns one halakha from the phrase “has had no,” which indicates that she has not even been betrothed, and he derives one halakha from the term “man,” which indicates that o
It was stated previously that according to R' Shimon, the term “to him,” comes to include a grown woman. The Talmud asks: Didn’t R' Shimon say with regard to a High Priest that the term virgin indicates a complete virgin, which does not include a grown woman? The Talmud answers: His reason there