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מתני׳ בת חלל זכר – פסולה מן הכהונה לעולם. ישראל שנשא חללה – בתו כשירה לכהונה. חלל שנשא בת ישראל – בתו פסולה לכהונה. רבי יהודה אומר: בת גר זכר כבת חלל זכר.
Mishnah: The daughter of a male ḥalal is unfit to marry into the priesthood forever. In other words, all daughters of male descendants of a ḥalal are prohibited from marrying priests, as they have the status of ḥalalot. If there was an Israelite who married a ḥalala, his daughter is fit to marry into the priesthood, whereas if there was a ḥalal who married a Jewish woman, his daughter is unfit to marry into the priesthood. R' Yehuda says: The daughter of a male convert is like the daughter of a male ḥalal, and she is also prohibited from marrying into the priesthood.
רבי אליעזר בן יעקב אומר: ישראל שנשא גיורת – בתו כשירה לכהונה, וגר שנשא בת ישראל – בתו כשירה לכהונה, אבל גר שנשא גיורת – בתו פסולה לכהונה. אחד גר ואחד עבדים משוחררים אפילו עד עשרה דורות, עד שתהא אמו מישראל. רבי יוסי אומר: אף גר שנשא גיורת בתו כשירה לכהונה.
R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov disagrees and says: If there was an Israelite who married a female convert, his daughter is fit to marry into the priesthood, and similarly if there was a convert who married a Jewish woman, his daughter is fit to marry into the priesthood. But if there was a male convert who married a female convert, his daughter is unfit to marry into the priesthood. With regard to both converts and emancipated Canaanite slaves, their daughters are unfit to marry into the priesthood even up to 10 generations. This halakha applies to the offspring until his mother is born Jewish. R' Yosei says: Even if there was a male convert who married a female convert, his daughter is fit to marry into the priesthood.
גמ׳ מאי לעולם? מהו דתימא: מידי דהוה אמצרי ואדומי, מה להלן לאחר שלשה דורות, אף כאן נמי לאחר שלשה דורות, קא משמע לן.
Talmud: What is the meaning of the statement that the daughter of a ḥalal is unfit forever? The Talmud explains: It is necessary lest you say that the halakha should be just as it is in the case of an Egyptian convert and an Edomite convert, and that just as there, with regard to an Egyptian and an Edomite, their descendants are permitted to enter into the congregation after 3 generations, so too here, the daughter of a descendant of a ḥalal should also be allowed to marry into the priesthood after 3 generations. The Mishnah therefore teaches us that this prohibition is permanent.