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5 β[1] A petzua daka and a krus shafcha are prohibited to marry a jewess, and permitted with a convertess and a freedwoman. And even a priest who is a petzua daka is permitted to marry a convertess and a freedwoman, since he is not in his sanctity. And even a nesina or one of the questionables are permitted to him; since a petzua daka is forbidden to enter the congregation, they did not decree on him regarding nesin's nor regarding questionables. However, he is forbidden in an unquestionable bastardess, for behold she is forbidden from the Torah. And some permit even a bastardess. (Tur, and Raavad, and Rashba) β[2] What is a petzua daka? Someone whose testicles are wounded. And a krus shofchoh, all that his penis is severed. And with three limbs it is possible that a male will become invalid: in the penis, and in the testicles, and in the paths within which the semen is prepared and they are what is called cords [of the] testicles. And when one of these three limbs is wounded or severed or crushed, behold he is invalid. For example, if the penis is wounded or crushed, or the glans is severed or above the glans [is severed], [he is] invalid. And if there is severed from the glans and there is left even as much as a hair's breadth encompassing the entire penis, [he is] kosher. β[3] If someone cut from the tendon above from the crown in the shap of a kulmus, it is kosher. Like a marzev, that took the vacant [part of] of the tendon and left the left side, [if cut so] [according to] Rashi and the Rosh, pasul. [According to] the Rambam, kosher. β[4] [If] it was pierced below the glans, [he is] kosher. If the glans itself was pierced, if when he ejaculates the semen leaks from the hole, he is invalid. And if the hole becomes sealed, he returns to his kosher status. β[5] [If] it was pierced below the glans in a way that opposite it, above, is inside the glans, [he is] invalid; for the entire glans is principal. β[6] (If) the vas deferens is blocked and returns to being unblocked and afterwards he sees semen when urinating, he is invalid. β[7] If the testicles are castrated, or [just] one of them, or one of them is damaged, or one of them is crushed, or incomplete, or is pierced by a hole (Rama: A full-through hole, B"Y in the name of the N"Y in the name of Tosafot Chapter HeArel) that is disqualified. Rama: That is the essence. And it is not like those who permit a person with one remaining testicle which is complete, and the rest of it is to the right (which is the position of Rabbeinu Tam). However, I see there are those who are lenient like that latter opinion, but it is better to be suspicious in a case of a Biblical prohibition towards those who are strict, and they are the majority and the authority. β[8] If both testicles are cut off, or if only one, or if it the testicle is wounded, the man is disqualified. β[9] If the tube connecting the testicles was pierced into the urethra and he urinates from both the urethra and the path of semen, he is valid. β[10] The disqualifications they have said about this, is when it was not an act of God, such as [his testicles] were severed by a man or a dog, he was struck by a thorn, or things similar to that. However, if he was born with a severed urethra, or crushed testicles, or was born without testicles, or he became ill because of a sickness of the body and these organs were terminated, or a blister occurred which made them wither or be severed, he is kosher to enter [marry] into the Jewish people. For all of these were acts of God, according to the Rambam. But Rashi and the Rosh only call it an act of God if it was lightning, or hail, or within the womb, but not through sickness, which is considered an act of man, and it disqualifies, and the Rosh writes that the Jerusalem Talmud implies this. β[11] It is prohibited to cause the loss of the seminal organs, whether regarding a human, domesticated animal, wild animal, bird, whether kosher or not, whether in the land of Israel or the diaspora. Anyone who castrates is lashed according to the Torah, in any place. Even one who castrates after a castration is lashed. How so? One comes and severs the penis, and another comes and severs the testicles or pulls them out, and another comes and severs the testicular tracts. Or one comes and crushes the penis, and another comes and pulls out [his testicles] , and another comes and severs it. All are lashed, even though the last castrator did not [truly] castrate, whether regarding a human, a domesticated animal, wild animal, or bird. One who castrates a female, whether human or the other species, is exempt (Rama: but forbidden). β[12] A person who gives a cup of root drink to a person or any living thing in order to render him impotent, this is forbidden. But, he (the giver of the drink) is not lashed. However, for a woman it is permitted to drink this root drink in order that she become impotent so she cannot give birth. β[13] If one holds down a man and and sics a dog or any other animal upon him until his sexual organs are severed, or if one forces a man to sit in water or in snow until his sexual organs terminated function, he is not lashed until he castrates him by hand. It is, however, fitting to lash him for rebellious conduct. Rama: But it is permitted to take hold of the crest of a rooster, even though it will be castrated through it, and anything else like that, because nothing was done to the seminal organs (Hagahot Alfasi, Perek Bameh Beheimah). β[14] It is forbidden to tell a gentile to castrate our animals. If he takes it upon himself and castrates it, it is permitted. And if a Jew is devious in this matter [and tells a gentile to castrate it], we fine him, (Rama: even if he isn't devious, but the gentile recognizes and understands it is for [the Jew's] benefit) and we make him sell it to a different Jew, and it is permitted to sell it even to his oldest son, but not to his younger son, he neither sells it nor gives it to him. Rama: And it is permitted to give the animal to a gentile for a semi-yield lease, even if the gentile will certainly castrate it (Hagaot Maimoni 16:1-2), for the gentile will only have his [benefit] in mind when he is doing it (Bet Yosef). And it is permitted to sell gentiles animals and chicken, even if the buyer will definitely castrate them. (And some prohibit, the explanation of which can be found in the Terumat Hadeshen 294). However, if the gentile buyer will not castrate them himself, but will give it to another gentile to castrate, all permit (G"Z ibid). Any [action] needed for healing or other reasons, there is no prohibition of "causing pain to animals" (Issur V'Heter Extended 59). And therefore it is permitted to pluck the feathers of wild geese, and there is no potential problem of "causing pain to animals" (Mahar"i 105). Nevertheless, the world withholds from it because of its cruelty.
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