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There is significance to a priest entering a wedding canopy with women who are unfit to marry a priest. If a priest’s daughter who is unfit to marry a priest enters the wedding canopy with a priest, she becomes disqualified from partaking of teruma from her father’s household. This is the case even
Shmuel said: And Abba, i.e., Rav, whose first name was Abba, concedes to me, with regard to a girl less than 3 years and one day old, that she is not disqualified by merely entering the wedding canopy. Since there is no legal significance to an act of sex with her, there is no legal significance t
Rava said: We, too, learn in the following baraita that there is no legal significance to an act of sex with a girl less than 3 years old: A girl 3 years and one day old can be betrothed via sex; and if she was a yevama and her yavam had sex with her, he has acquired her; and a man who has sex with
If she is married to a priest she may partake of teruma. If one of those who render women unfit for marrying a priest had sex with her, he has disqualified her from being able to partake of teruma.
Rava infers from this baraita that it is a girl 3 years and one day old who is disqualified via sex, and consequently she is also disqualified via the wedding canopy. However, a girl who is less than 3 years and one day old, who is not disqualified via sex, is also not disqualified via the wedding