3,280. How Descendants Affect a Woman's Ability to Eat Terumah

Terumos 6:12

The daughter of a Yisroel who has a child with a kohein may eat terumah because of the child. This is so regardless of whether the child is a boy, a girl, of indeterminate gender or intersex (what used to be called a hermaphrodite). Even a grandchild, a great-grandchild, etc. enable this woman to eat terumah. This is derived from Leviticus 22:13: “She has no descendants.”

Terumos 6:13

Just like having descendants from a Yisroel disqualifies the daughter of a kohein from eating terumah, having descendants from a kohein enables the daughter of a Yisroel to eat terumah. This is so even if the descendants in question are of “blemished” lineage. For example, let’s say that the daughter of a Yisroel married a kohein or, vice versa, and gave birth to a daughter. That daughter has relations with a prohibited relationship or marries a mamzer (i.e., the product of prohibited relationships). If the daughter dies, but the child (who is a mamzer) is still alive, it affects the grandmother’s ability to eat terumah.