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R' Yirmeya of Difti explains how this Mishnah demonstrates that one follows the majority even in cases of capital law: Why is a man who had sex with a three-year-old girl who was married to another man liable to receive the death penalty? Say that perhaps it will turn out that she is a sexually unde
The Talmud refutes this claim: No; rather, what is the meaning of that which is taught in the Mishnah: And if she is married, a man other than her husband is liable for having sex with her due to violation of the prohibition against sex with a married woman? This means that if a man unwittingly had
The Talmud asks: But wasn’t it taught in the Mishnah: And if one of any of those with whom sex are forbidden, which are enumerated in the Torah, had sex with her, the man is executed by the court for having sex with her? The Talmud answers: This is referring to a case where her father or some other
The Talmud asks: But wasn’t it taught: If one of any of those with whom sex are forbidden had sex with her, the man is executed by the court for having sex with her? This seems to indicate that the death penalty is imposed for all types of forbidden sex with a three-year-old girl, even if the sex i
§ A baraita states: If a woman was acting lewdly with her minor son and he performed the initial stage of sex with her, Beit Shammai say that he has thereby disqualified her from marrying into the priesthood. And Beit Hillel deem her fit to marry into the priesthood, because they maintain that the s