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יש חופה לפסולות. ושמואל אמר: אין חופה לפסולות.
There is significance to a priest entering a wedding canopy with women who are unfit to marry a priest. If a priest’s daughter who is unfit to marry a priest enters the wedding canopy with a priest, she becomes disqualified from partaking of teruma from her father’s household. This is the case even if the priest did not betroth her and they did not have sex. And Shmuel said: There is no significance to a priest entering the wedding canopy with women who are unfit to marry a priest. Only sex disqualifies her from the privileges of priesthood.
אמר שמואל: ומודה לי אבא בתינוקת פחותה מבת שלש שנים ויום אחד, הואיל ואין לה ביאה, אין לה חופה.
Shmuel said: And Abba, i.e., Rav, whose first name was Abba, concedes to me, with regard to a girl less than 3 years and one day old, that she is not disqualified by merely entering the wedding canopy. Since there is no legal significance to an act of sex with her, there is no legal significance to entering the wedding canopy with her.
אמר רבא, אף אנן נמי תנינא: בת שלש שנים ויום אחד מתקדשת בביאה, ואם בא עליה יבם — קנאה, וחייבין עליה משום אשת איש, ומטמאה את בועלה לטמא משכב תחתון כעליון.
Rava said: We, too, learn in the following baraita that there is no legal significance to an act of sex with a girl less than 3 years old: A girl 3 years and one day old can be betrothed via sex; and if she was a yevama and her yavam had sex with her, he has acquired her; and a man who has sex with her while she is married to someone else is liable on her account because of the prohibition of sex with a married woman; and if she experiences a menstrual discharge she renders ritually impure a man who has sex with her, so that he renders impure the object upon which he lies like the upper one.