[Avodah] the cohen gadol and marriage to a pubescent girl

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> My understanding is that the shiur deOraisa is 2 sa'aros. Waiting until
> normal ages for puberty is to insure the reality of the sa'aros, and
> not some form of wart or a mole (Niddah 46a).

Earlier hair is *deemed* not to be "real", even if it's unmistakeable.
It's a matter of definition, not of metziut.

 
> So it would seem to me:
> The shiur deOraisa is 2 sa'aros. The shiur deRabbanan for dinim deOraisa
> when lechumrah, is to also require age -- which is 12 for a boy and
> 11 for a girl.

Huh? Where are you getting these ages?  Are you claiming that, even
(leshitascha) mid'rabanan, a 12-year-old boy with confirmed hair would
be a gadol?  AFAIK this is not so, and a boy one day before his bar
mitzvah is a katan lechol davar, even if he has confirmed and
unmistakeable hair.



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