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Our daf struggles to prove that a woman who has relations with a man to whom she is prohibited with an Isur Lav becomes disqualified from eating Terumah.
The Gemara searches for a source that such a relationship also disqualifies the woman from marrying a Kohen.
The barite claims A nine-year-and-one-day-old boy who is an Ammonite or a Moabite convert; or who is an Egyptian or an Edomite convert; or who is either a Samaritan, a Gibeonite, a ḥalal, or a mamzer, when he engaged in intercourse with a priestess, or a Levite, or an Israelite, he thereby disqualified her from marrying into the priesthood.
We once again explore the “asarah yuchesin” those excluded from the club as well as Prof Meir Bar Ilan’s superb analysis of the mazer.
We then turn attention to the genetics of transmission of kehuna once claimed by geneticists then debunked a few years later, not first having been used by those selling Judaism as to the racial purity of the jehudah and perforce of Jews.