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evident from the fact that the latter clause of the Mishnah includes two reasons for the killing of the animal, namely both the calamity and the shame caused by the animal, that the first clause, the first reason stated in the Mishnah, is referring to a case of a calamity without shame? And what ar
The Talmud rejects this proof: No. The latter clause is referring to a case of both a calamity and shame, but this first clause teaches us that even in a case where there is a circumstance of shame alone without the calamity of execution, the court is obligated to kill the animal. Although the Mish
As Rav Hamnuna raises a dilemma: With regard to a Jew who unwittingly has sex with an animal, what is the halakha? Is the animal stoned to death? Do we need both a calamity and shame in order to put it to death, and therefore here the animal is not killed, as there is shame, but there is no calami
Rav Yosef says: Come and hear a resolution from a Mishnah (Nidda 44b): A girl who is 3 years and one day old whose father arranged her betrothal is betrothed with sex, as the legal status of sex with her is that of full-fledged sex. And in a case where the childless husband of a girl who is 3 years
The Mishnah continues: And if she is impure due to menstruation, she transmits impurity to one who has sex with her, who then renders all the items designated for lying beneath him impure like the items designated for lying above him. If she marries a priest, she may partake of teruma like any othe