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And, although there is no possibility for her to become pregnant, the rabbis issued a rabbinic decree requiring the 3 month waiting period for a female minor due to this requirement for a female adult who engaged in promiscuous sexual acts.
The Talmud asks: And do we issue a decree with regard to a female minor due to the ruling for a female adult? But didn’t we learn in the Mishnah: If they were female minors who could not bear children, we return them immediately to their husbands? This indicates that there is no concern for pregnanc
Some say another version of what was taught: Shmuel said: All women must wait 3 months, except for a female convert who is an adult and a freed female slave who is an adult; these women need not wait. However, an Israelite female minor need not wait 3 months in any case. The Talmud clarifies: With
The Talmud suggests: Let the rabbis issue a decree requiring a female convert and a released female slave to wait 3 months, as at the time that one was a non-Jew and the other a female slave, promiscuous sex was common for them. The Talmud responds: Shmuel stated his halakhic ruling in accordance w
Abaye said to him: Granted, a female convert does this. Since she is determined to convert, she guards herself so as not to be impregnated while still a non-Jew in order to distinguish between children conceived in sanctity, i.e., after her conversion, and children conceived out of sanctity. A capt