Study Yevamot folio 81A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Shall we say that this is a conclusive refutation of the opinion of Rav Hamnuna, who said: A widow waiting for her yavam, who engaged in an act of licentious sex, is disqualified from entering into levirate marriage with her yavam, like an ordinary married woman who committed adultery? The Talmud r
It is taught in the Mishnah: And similarly, with regard to a sexually underdeveloped woman, if one of the brothers performed ḥalitza with her he has not disqualified her, but if he had sex with her he has disqualified her. The Talmud infers from this wording that the reason for her disqualificatio
Mishnah: If a priest who is a eunuch by natural causes married an Israelite woman, he enables her to eat teruma. R' Yosei and R' Shimon say: If a priest who is a hermaphrodite, possessing both male and female genitals, married an Israelite woman, he enables her to eat teruma.
R' Yehuda says: If a tumtum, whose external sexual organs are indeterminate, was torn open so that his genitals were exposed, and he was found to be a male, he must not perform ḥalitza, because he is treated like a eunuch. A hermaphrodite may marry a woman but he may not be married by a man, as h
Talmud: The Talmud questions the Mishnah’s teaching concerning a priest who was sexually impotent from birth: This is obvious; why should such a priest not enable his wife to partake of teruma? The Talmud answers: This halakha is necessary lest you say that since the verse states: “And such as are