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The Talmud asks: Granted, according to the opinion of R' Yoḥanan, just as there is a tanna who says that one day in a year is considered equivalent to a year, so too, there is a tanna who says that 30 days in a year are considered equivalent to a year. The baraita states that according to R' Meir, a
But according to the opinion of R' Yannai, that R' Meir requires a full 3 years, this baraita is difficult, as it explicitly states that in R' Meir’s opinion even a girl aged two years and one day can be betrothed by sex. The Talmud concludes: Indeed, this baraita is difficult according to the opi
§ The last clause of the Mishnah teaches that if the girl is less than that age, i.e., younger than 3 years and one day, the status of sex with her is like placing a finger into the eye. A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: What happens to this hymen, i.e., to the hymen of a girl under 3 with wh
The Talmud asks: What difference is there in halakha between these two suggestions? The Talmud answers that there is a practical ramification in a case where a priest had sex with a girl to whom he is married within her first 3 years, and found blood on her due to that sex, and again had sex with he
But if you say that the hymen is not removed at all until after she reaches the age of 3, the fact that this girl did not emit blood after 3 years must be because another man had sex with her after she turned 3, in which case she is classified as a zona, a woman who has had sex with a man forbidden