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that they will say a matter of halakha in my name in this world when I have passed on to another world. As R' Yoḥanan said in the name of R' Shimon ben Yoḥai: With regard to any Torah scholar in whose name a matter of halakha is said in this world, his lips mouth the words in the grave, as though
He explains: This is like a pile [komer] of grapes left to warm before they are pressed: Just as in the case of a pile of grapes, when a person places his finger on it, immediately it moves, as the wine bursts through and the whole pile shakes, so too with Torah scholars: When a teaching is said in
§ The Talmud addresses the statement of the Mishnah that this is the halakha both for a boy who is 9 years and one day old as well as a twenty-year old who has not developed two pubic hairs. In both cases, their sex are not considered proper sex with regard to levirate marriage. And the Talmud raise
Likewise, in the case of a woman who is 20 years old and has not developed two pubic hairs, they must bring proof that she is 20 years old, and that she is a sexually underdeveloped woman, who may neither perform ḥalitza nor enter into levirate marriage. This shows that the status of a nine-year-o
The Talmud answers: Wasn’t it stated with regard to this baraita that Rav Shmuel bar Yitzḥak said that Rav said: And this halakha applies only if he developed other signs of a eunuch by the age of 20. The Mishnah, by contrast, is referring to one who merely showed the signs of maturity at a late age