About this episode
Other issues regarding the details of a patzua daka and crut shufcha are discussed, such as, if there is a perforation that scabs and heals, how can we determine that it is fully healed? What can be done to help it to heal? Rabba son of Rav Huna and his father Rav Huna each rule on a different topic - one forbids a man from marrying if he urinates and it comes out from two different openings. The other forbids a woman to marry a kohen if she engages in sexual activity with another female. Rava rules against both of these rulings. A patzua daka and crut shufcha are permitted to marry a convert and a freed maidservant. Rav Sheshet was asked if a kohen who is a patzua daka is permitted to marry a convert or freed maidservant? He permitted it by learning it from a patzua daka yisrael who is permitted to marry a netina, which would only be permitted if the patzua daka is no longer considered "sanctified." Rava questioned this as he held that since one cannot marry a gentile as we are considered they will turn your child away from Judaism, netinim, who converted, are only forbidden by the rabbis and therefore a patzua daka who can have children was included in the rabbinic prohibition, but not a patzua daka who cannot have children. However, Rava himself rejects this and says that when the Torah said "You cannot marry them," it would have to be a situation where a marriage would be valid and therefore the verse itself must be referring to converts from the seven nations, which would include the netinim . Therefore it is forbidden on a Torah level and the reason it is permitted is as Rav Sheshet said because a patzua daka is no longer sanctified. Is there so that the language of marriage would not be used in a case where the marriage was invalid (i.e. if the woman was a gentile)? What about the daughter of Pharoah who married King Solomon? Perhaps she converted? Perhaps the verse doesn't mean that they actually married? One last attempt to show that a patzua daka kohen cannot marry a netina is derived from our Mishna, but it is an inconclusive derivation. A male convert from Amon and Moav is forbidden but a female is permitted. Can one learn from here that a female Egyptian or Edomite convert would be permitted as well? A story is told based on the verses in Shmuel 1 Chapter 17 when David fights against Goliath and King Saul asks who is David, which relates to the issue of whether one can marry a female covert from Amon and Moav.