Study Avodah Zarah folio 37A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud explains the reason for this opinion: Since a nine-year-old boy is fit to engage in sex, he also imparts ritual impurity as one who experienced ziva. Ravina said: Therefore, with regard to a female non-Jew child who is 3 years and one day old, since she is fit to engage in sex at that ag
The Talmud asks: Isn’t that obvious? The Talmud explains: It was necessary to state this ruling, lest you say that the halakha that a non-Jew who is suited for sex imparts impurity does not apply to a female. The possible difference between a male and female child is based on the fact that whereas
The Talmud relates a relevant incident: R' Yehuda Nesia was traveling while leaning upon the shoulder of R' Simlai, his attendant. R' Yehuda Nesia said to him: Simlai, you were not in the study hall last night when we permitted the oil of non-Jews. R' Simlai said to him: In our days, you will permi
R' Simlai said to him: There, Yosei ben Yo’ezer permitted 3 matters, but the Master has permitted only one, and even if the Master permits one other matter, these will still constitute only two permissive rulings. R' Yehuda Nesia said to him: I have already permitted another matter. The Talmud asks
The Talmud explains that this is as we learned in a Mishnah (Gittin 76b) that if one says to his wife: This is your bill of divorce if I do not arrive from now until 12 months’ time, and he died within 12 months, then it is not a valid bill of divorce because it would not take effect until after th