Eduyos 3:6-7

Eduyos 3:6

Rabbi Dosa says that a kohein’s wife who was once a captive may eat trumah; the Sages say that some captive women may eat trumah while others may not, as follows: a woman who volunteers that she had been taken captive but was not violated may eat trumah because she didn’t have to bring the matter up at all. If witnesses testify that she had been taken captive and she responds that she was not violated, she may not eat trumah (based on the legal presumption that captive women are usually violated).

Eduyos 3:7

Rabbi Yehoshua declares four doubtful situations to be ritually unclean but the Sages declare them to be clean: (1) if a ritually-unclean person is standing under an overhang and a ritually-clean person passes by (possibly but not definitely under the same overhang); (2) if a ritually-clean person is standing and a ritually-unclean person passes by; (3) if there’s ritual uncleanliness in a private domain and ritual cleanliness in a public domain or (4) ritual cleanliness in the private domain and ritual uncleanliness in the public domain, and there is a doubt as to whether or not one touched the impurity, about whether or not there was an overhang over him and the impurity, or a doubt as to whether or not he moved the impurity. In all of these cases, Rabbi Yehoshua pronounces one unclean and the Sages declare him to be clean.