Keritot 14B

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Talmud: The Talmud asks: How could one become liable to bring multiple sin offerings? But R' Meir does not hold that a prohibition takes effect where another prohibition already exists. The Talmud answers: Although he generally does not hold that a prohibition takes effect where another prohibition

Consequently, the ruling stated in the Mishnah applies in a case where one had sex with his mother and thereby fathered a daughter, so that the prohibitions against having sex with his daughter and with his sister come into effect simultaneously. If that daughter married his brother, then since a

If she later married his father’s brother, then since a prohibition is added with regard to the sons of his father’s other brothers, a prohibition is also added with regard to him. If she becomes, or remains, a married woman, since a prohibition is added with regard to every man in the world oth

Mishnah: It is possible for one who has sex with his daughter’s daughter to be liable to bring sin offerings due to the unwitting violation of the prohibitions of having sex with his daughter’s daughter, and his daughter-in-law, and the wife of his brother, and the wife of his father’s brother, and

And likewise, it is possible for one who has sex with the daughter of his wife to be liable to bring 6 sin offerings, similar to one who has sex with his own daughter, for violating the prohibitions against having sex with his wife’s daughter, his sister, the wife of his brother, the wife of his fa