תלמוד על כתובות 1:2

MISHNAH: Ten marriage classes returned from Babylonia: Priests, Levites, Israel, desecrated priests¹Descendants of the forbidden union of a priest and a divorcee or a prostitute., proselytes, freedmen, bastards²Descendants of an adulterous or incestuous union involving a deadly sin., dedicated ones³Gibeonites, cf. Notes 46 ff., silenced ones⁴As explained in Mishnah 2, children with a known mother but unknown father., foundlings. Priests, Levites, and Israel are permitted to marry one another. Levites, Israel, proselytes, freedmen, and desecrated priests are permitted to marry one another⁵The marriage class of the child being that of the father by Mishnah 3:14.. Proselytes, freedmen, bastards, silenced ones, and foundlings are permitted to marry one another.

Rebbi Eleazar asked, what about a male who sleeps with a manumitted slave girl¹⁸⁰It seems that this is a rhetorical question since the ketubah of the freedwoman is determined in Mishnaiot 1:2,4 and her right to the fine imposed on the rapist or the seducer in 3:1,2. R. David Fraenckel emends מהו to מנײן and reads the question as asking for the biblical source of the Mishnaiot mentioned.? Let us hear from the following¹⁸¹A parallel text in Halakhah 3:1.: I could think that a male who sleeps with a Gentile slave has to pay¹⁸²The fine imposed on a person raping or seducing an underage girl, cf. Note 117.; the verse says¹⁸³Ex. 22:15.: “He shall take her as wife by the bride price.” If he can marry her. This excludes the [gentile] slave (or any)¹⁸⁴Reading ארמית for מי או of the text. whom he cannot marry. Only because he cannot marry her! Therefore, if he can marry her¹⁸⁵If she is freed and can contract a marriage., she collects the fine, and any who collects the fine has a ketubah. ¹⁸⁶From Halakhah 1:2. Rebbi Yudan said, does that depend on a fine? Look, the adult¹⁴¹Who marries as a virgin. collects no fine but her ketubah is 200, the virgin after marriage collects a fine¹⁴²If she still has not reached 12 years and 6 months of age. The argument of R. Yose is shown to be wrong. but her ketubah is a mina⁶²If the husband died immediately after the final marriage ceremony, the widow is still a virgin but in her next marriage she can claim only the widow’s mina for her ketubah, the same as a widow who is not a virgin. Therefore, for R. Eleazar there is no reason why she should marry on a Wednesday.! Rebbi Ze‘ira said before Rebbi Mana, explain it if she was converted or freed before she reached three years and one day. He said to him, any woman who was converted or manumitted before she reached three years and one day is like an Israel¹⁸⁷Mishnaiot 1:2, 3:1 state clearly that in matters of marriage, girls becoming Jewish at a very young age are equal to those born Jewish [except for marriages with priests where practice follows Ez. 44:22; cf. Bikkurim1:5 (Notes 89–99), Babli Yebamot 60b.].