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בת כהן שניסת לישראל — לא תאכל בתרומה. מת ולה הימנו בן — לא תאכל בתרומה. ניסת ללוי — תאכל במעשר. מת ולה הימנו בן — תאכל במעשר. ניסת לכהן — תאכל בתרומה. מת ולה הימנו בן — תאכל בתרומה.
The daughter of a priest married to an Israelite may not partake of teruma. If the Israelite died and she has a son from him, she may not partake of teruma as long as that son is alive. If she subsequently married a Levite she may partake of tithe. If he died, and she had a son from him, she may still partake of tithe. If she subsequently married a priest, she may partake of teruma. If the priest died and she had a son from him, she may partake of teruma.
מת בנה מכהן — לא תאכל בתרומה. מת בנה מלוי — לא תאכל במעשר. מת בנה מישראל — חוזרת לבית אביה, ועל זו נאמר: ״ושבה אל בית אביה כנעוריה מלחם אביה תאכל״.
If her son from the priest also died, she may not partake of teruma, but she may partake of tithe, as she has a son from a Levite. If her son from the Levite died, she may no longer partake of tithe. If her son from the Israelite died, she returns to her father’s house and may once again partake of teruma. And with regard to this woman, it is stated: “And she is returned to her father’s house, as in her youth; she may eat of her father’s bread” (Leviticus 22:13).
גמ׳ מת בנה מלוי — תאכל בתרומה. דהדרא אכלה משום בנה, מנלן? אמר רבי אבא אמר רב: ״בת״ ״ובת״.
Talmud: We learned in the Mishnah: If her son from the Levite died she may partake of teruma. The Talmud asks: This halakha with regard to a woman previously married to a priest, who had a child from the priest and was then married to a Levite and separated from him, that she once again may partake due to her son from the priest, from where do we derive it? R' Abba said that Rav said: It states: “But if a priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned to her father’s house, as in her youth” (Leviticus 22:13). The verse could have stated: If a priest’s daughter. Instead, it states: “But if a priest’s daughter,” with an extra word, represented by the single Hebrew letter vav, to include this case.