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Rav Ḥisda explained: Is this not similar to the case of Yehudit, wife of R' Ḥiyya, who would have painful childbirths and therefore wished to leave R' Ḥiyya? She said to R' Ḥiyya: My mother told me: When you were young your father accepted betrothal on your behalf from another man, which would rende
Returning to the incident with the blue marble stone, the Talmud relates that the rabbis said to Rav Ḥisda: Why do you say that she is not betrothed because the item is not worth one peruta in the place where the betrothal occurred? After all, there are witnesses in Idit who know that on that day it
Rav Ḥisda cites a proof for his statement: Isn’t this the same as the opinion of R' Ḥanina? In the case of a woman who appeared before the court and said that she was taken captive but remained undefiled, if there are no witnesses that she was captured, her entire claim must be accepted, and theref
The Talmud comments: Abaye and Rava do not hold in accordance with this statement of Rav Ḥisda with regard to betrothal. In their opinion one cannot learn the halakha here from R' Ḥanina’s statement, as there is a difference between the cases: If in the case of R' Ḥanina the rabbis were lenient with
The Talmud reports: Descendants of the family of the woman who had been betrothed with a blue marble stone remained in Sura, as after Rav Ḥisda ruled that that woman’s first betrothal was invalid, she married another man and had children. But the rabbis avoided the family and refused to marry into