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ממולאי, אמריתו מילי מוליתא? במקומה — מבשלה, שלא במקומה — לא מבשלה.
from truncated [mimula’ei] people, as Rav Beivai’s family traced their lineage to the house of Eli, all of whose descendants were destined to be short-lived (see I Samuel 2:31), you speak truncated [mulayata] and unsound matters. When the semen passes through its proper place, it fertilizes; but if it does not pass through its proper place, it does not fertilize. Since he cannot father children, he is like one whose testicles have been crushed, and therefore he may not enter into the congregation.
אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל: ניקב ונסתם, כל שאילו נקרי ונקרע — פסול. ואי לאו — כשר. הוי בה רבא: היכא? אילימא למטה מעטרה — אפילו נכרת נמי, אלא בעטרה עצמה. איתמר נמי, אמר רב מרי בר מר אמר מר עוקבא אמר שמואל: ניקב בעטרה עצמה ונסתם, כל שאילו נקרי ונקרע פסול, ואי לאו — כשר.
Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said: If a man’s member had been punctured and it later healed and the hole closed up with flesh, in any case where, if he would emit semen, it would tear open again, he is unfit to enter into the congregation; but if not, he is fit. Rava discussed this ruling and raised a question: Where is this perforation? If we say it is below the corona, at the end of the man’s member, why should this perforation render him unfit? Even if the member was entirely severed, he would also be fit. Rather, the hole is in the corona itself, that is, at the point where the corona meets the rest of the member. It was also stated explicitly that this is the case, as Rav Mari bar Mar said that Mar Ukva said that Shmuel said: If a man’s member had been punctured in the corona itself, and it later healed and the hole closed up with flesh, in any case where if he would emit semen it would tear open again, he is unfit; but if not, he is fit.