Today’s daf is sponsored by Judy and Jerel Shapiro in memory of their dear cousin Judy Greenberg Hirsch of Chatsworth, CA, who passed away this week. “Judy was an early member of the Chavurah movement in LA, and was an amazing person. Zichrona L’vracha.”
Today’s daf is sponsored by Shira Krebs in honor of Rena Berger’s birthday. “Today is the special birthday of my sister and number one daf yomi supporter, Rena Berger. Happy Birthday!”
How can we determine if someone is a saris chama (from birth)? Rabbi Eliezer in the Mishna held that a saris chama would do chalitza as he can potentially be healed. However, in a braita, he is quoted as describing a saris chama who does not do yibum or chalitza. Two suggestions are made to resolve the contradiction – either he changed his mind (if so, which way?) or his words in the braita were referring to a different law about a saris chama and not yibum and chalitza. One who has sign of being a saris or aylonit and then later grows two pubic hairs, Rav holds retroactively they are considered a saris/aylonit and therefore are already considered having reached maturity at age 13/12. Shmuel says they are considered mature at a later stage (according to some interpretations, when they grow hairs, according to others, when they reach the age of /18 (female)/20 (male) and it becomes clear they are a saris/aylonit. If so, then why does Rav not think that an aylonit who is raped gets to collect the kenas, 50 kesef, which according to Rav is not given only if the girl is a minor. They answer that the kenas is given to a girl who is a naara – between 12 and 12 and a half. The aylonit skips that stage and goes immediately from a minor to a bogeret (full adulthood). Both the determination of a saris/aylonit and whether a baby born in the eighth month is going to survive, happens only at the age of 20. How can an eighth-month baby survive at all? Rebbe holds that it could be a seven-month baby that waited an extra month before coming out. A story is brought of a woman whose husband went abroad for 12 months and she gave birth and they attributed the baby to the father, in order to show that we can assume the baby sometimes waits to come out. Is this the majority or a minority opinion? What are signs of a saris/aylonit? Regarding a saris – is it enough to have one of the signs or does one need to have all of the signs in order to be considered a saris? The line in the Mishna that seems to repeat that a saris cannot perform chalitza is brought to show that they side like Rabbi Akiva that a saris is one who is born with the condition, as it is juxtaposed to an aylonit.
