[Avodah] Would Ruth's conversion be rejected today?

[Zev Sero]

On 4/06/2012 6:18 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 03:53:14PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> On 4/06/2012 10:06 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
>>> In the case in the gemara, the girl is married to a kohein and eating his
>>> terumah, so yes, it's in her best interest to affirm her Jewishness.
>
>> Huh?  The kohen's child bride is not a giyores!   If she were, then
>> he couldn't marry her no matter how old she was and how firm her
>> Jewishness.
>
> The extension of the gezeira to pechusah mibas 3 was during the period
> of the amora'im. Eg Kesuvos 11a. There are discussions in shas that
> predate it.

What gezeira?  This is an issur de'oraisa!  And there is no discussion
of it on that page.

Maybe you meant Yevamos 60b and Kidushin 78a, but that is a machlokes
tana'im over what the halacha de'oraisa is.  I'm not aware of any amora
who paskened like RSBY.


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