Kiddushin - Daf 77
- The child of a chalal and bas Yisroel, or Yisroel and חללה
The next Mishnah states: בת חלל זכר פסולה מן הכהונה לעולם – the daughter of a male chalal is disqualified from Kehunah forever (i.e., even many generations later). ישראל שנשא חללה – But a Yisroel who married a chalalah, בתו כשירה לכהונה – his daughter is fit for Kehunah. This distinction is based on the passuk "לא יחלל זרעו בעמיו" – he shall not profane his offspring among his people, from a gezeirah shavah (בעמיו בעמיו) from the prohibition for a Kohen to become tamei from a corpse, which only applies to male Kohanim. The Mishnah disagrees with Rebbe Dostai ben Yehudah, who says: כשם שבני ישראל מקוה טהרה לחללות – Just as sons of Yisroel are like a purifying mikveh to chalalos (because their daughters are permitted to Kohanim), כך בנות ישראל מקוה טהרה לחללים – so too the daughters of Yisroel are like a purifying mikveh to chalalim, and their daughters are permitted to Kohanim. He darshens the above passuk to teach: בעם אחד הוא דמיחל – within one people (a chalal marrying a chalalah) he profanes his children, בשני עממים אינו מיחל – but within two peoples (a chalal marrying a bas Yisroel), he does not profane them.
- Number of malkos for a triple widow, or one with multiple disqualifications to Kehunah
A Baraisa teaches: אלמנה אלמנה אלמנה – A Kohen who has relations with a widow, a widow, and a widow, אינו חייב אלא אחת – is only liable to one set of malkos. This cannot mean relations with three different widows, because he would surely be liable for all three. If he had relations three times with one widow, and received a warning each time, he would receive malkos for each, as taught regarding a nazir who continuously drinks wine after multiple warnings. Rather, the case is a woman who was widowed from three different husbands, מהו דתימא הרי שמות מוחלקים – where you might have said that she is prohibited by three separate titles of prohibition (because each widowhood is a result from three different husbands), קמ"ל גופים מוחלקים בעינן וליכא – so [the Baraisa] teaches us that separate physical entities are required for multiple malkos, and they are not in this case. The Baraisa teaches that if a Kohen has relations with a woman who is a widow, a divorcee, a chalalah, and a zonah, if these events occurred to her in the above order, he is liable for all four. This Tanna holds that generally, אין איסור חל על איסור – a prohibition does not take effect upon another prohibition, but איסור מוסיף אית ליה – he holds a more expansive prohibition does take effect. The Gemara explains how the above order is progressively more expansive.
- אין חללה אלא מאיסור כהונה
Rav Pappa asked Abaye, if a Yisroel had relations with his sister, does she become a chalalah? Do we say a kal vachomer, that since a woman becomes a chalalah through relations of a mere lav (i.e., Kehunah prohibitions), then certainly she would through relations punishable by kares, or do we say that she only becomes a chalalah through a Kehunah prohibition? He answered: אין חללה אלא מאיסור כהונה – there is no chalalah except as a result of Kehunah prohibitions. This is derived from the extra word "חללה" written by a Kohen Gadol’s prohibitions. Rav Ashi notes that if a Kohen has relations with his sister, she becomes a zonah, but not a chalalah, as above. If he has relations with her again, she then becomes a chalalah, since she was a zonah at the time of the second relations.
