[Bi'ah with girls] less than three years and one day - R. Yosi citing R. Chiya bar Ashi and R. Yonah citing R. Chiya bar Ashi citing Rav said, what is this like? It is like [pressing one's finger and] making a depression in flesh - it returns and fills up. So too, her Besulim return.]

(R. Chiyah - Beraisa): It is like one who clouds a spring. It returns to be clear.

Support (R. Yosi - Mishnah): Less than [three years and one day] - it is like putting a finger in the eye. (It sheds tears, and sheds tears again.)

(R. Avin): "Ekra lEi'lokim Elyon la'Kel Gomer Alai" -if a girl (born in Adar) was three years and one day, and Beis Din decided to make a leap year (so now it is Adar Rishon, and she is less than three), her Besulim return. If not (they did not make a leap year), her Besulim do not return.

(Mishnah - R. Meir): The Kesuvah of the following is 200 - a Gadol who had Bi'ah with a Ketanah, a Katan who had Bi'ah with a Gedolah, and a Mukas Etz;

Chachamim say, the Kesuvah of a Mukas Etz is 100.

(Gemara) Question: What is a Katan (in our Mishnah), and what is a Ketanah?

Answer (in the name of R. Yehudah ben Chagra): A Katan is less than nine years and one day, and a Ketanah is less than three years and one day.

Question: Granted, if a Gadol had Bi'ah with [such] a Ketanah, her Besulim return. However, if a Katan had Bi'ah with a Gedolah, her Besulim do not return! (Why is her Kesuvah 200?)

Answer #1 (R. Avin): The case is, he had Bi'ah with her Lo k'Darkah (in the anus).

Answer #2 (R. Yosi b'Ribi Avin): You can even say [that the Bi'ah was] k'Darkah. Is a Katan's Bi'ah Bi'ah? Surely it is not!] He does not have power to touch (i.e. remove) the Simanim (Besulim).

Support: A case occurred in which a woman became pregnant, and here Besulim were intact. (PNEI MOSHE - this shows that it is possible to have Bi'ah without removing the Besulim.)

Question (against R. Meir): There are no Besulim here (in a Mukas Etz), and you say that her Kesuvah is 200?!

Answer (R. Meir): Does it depend on Besulim?! A Bogeres does not have Besulim, yet her Kesuvah is 200! A Besulah from Nisu'in has Besulim, yet her Kesuvah is 100!

Note: The Bavli (Yevamos 59a) connotes that a Bogeres has some Besulim, but not all. It is possible that the Yerushalmi agrees, and means that she does not have all her Besulim. (PF)

Question: What is the reason [why a Bogeres' Kesuvah is greater than that of a Besulah from Nisu'in]?

Answer: A Bogeres did not lose her appeal. A Besulah from Nisu'in lost her appeal.

What do they argue about? They argue about a Mukas Etz. R. Meir says that she did not lose her appeal, and Rabanan say that she lost her appeal.

A Besulah who had Bi'ah with a Katan, and from one who is not a man (rather, an animal), she is Kosher to Kehunah.

(R. Chalafta bar Sha'ul - Beraisa): She is Kosher even to a Kohen Gadol.

Question (R. Yosi and R. Ami): What is the difference between her (one who had Bi'ah with a Katan or an animal), and one who had Bi'ah (i.e. she removed her Besulim) with the finger? One who had Bi'ah with the finger, is she not Pasul to a Kohen [Gadol]?!

Answer (R. Chagai): The case is, he (or it) had Bi'ah with her Lo k'Darkah. (Their Bi'ah is not Bi'ah to make her a Be'ulah, and her Besulim are intact.)

R. Chagai wanted to retract [from this answer]. R. Aba told him, do not retract.

Question: Why did R. Chagai want to retract?

Answer: It says "v'Hu Ishah bi'Vsuleha Yikach" - she must be a Besulah from both sides (the normal place of Bi'ah, and the anus).

Question: Similarly, it says "Besulah v'Ish Lo Yad'ah" - she was a Besulah from Bi'ah k'Darkah, and no Ish (adult) knew (had Bi'ah with) her Lo k'Darkah. (This connotes that only an adult makes her a Be'ulah Lo k'Darkah, like R. Chagai said initially!)

Answer (R. Yitzchak ben Elazar): [No, "Ish" teaches that] even her father did not touch her - "Ki Lo Yanu'ach Shevet ha'Rasha Al Goral ha'Tzadikim." (Maseches Sofrim says that the Emori custom was for fathers to sleep with their Besulos daughters. Yalkut says that Besu'el was a king, and he slept with every Besulah before her Nisu'in, and his subjects said that if he will not do so with Rivkah, they will kill both of them. Miraculously, Besu'el died before defiling her. (TORAH TEMIMAH)

Question: How would R. Chagai explain (R. Chalafta bar Sha'ul's law, that she is Kosher even to a Kohen Gadol) before he retracted (i.e. when he wanted to retract)?

Answer: He explains that it refers to Ha'ara'ah (the first stage of Bi'ah) with a minor or animal does not disqualify to a Kohen Gadol. We explained this like RIDVAZ.)

Question: Why didn't R. Yosi (he and R. Ami asked above, what is the difference between Bi'ah with a Katan or an animal, and Bi'ah with the finger) explain that it refers to Ha'ara'ah?

Answer (R. Mana): R. Yosi was unsure about this. R. Yosi asked, what is the law of [a man who did] Ha'ara'ah with a male? What is the law of Ha'ara'ah with an animal? (If Ha'arah with an animal is considered Bi'ah, she is a Be'ulah. The Beraisa could not permit her to a Kohen Gadol! We explained this like NO'AM YERUSHALMI.)

When R. Yirmeyah heard this of R. Chagai, he said 'R. Ami did not ask about this!' (R. Chagai understood that R. Ami questioned the Beraisa, why one who had Bi'ah with a Katan or an animal is Kosher to a Kohen Gadol. Really, he asked about our Mishnah - a Katan who had Bi'ah with a Gedolah, her Kesuvah is 200. Why is she unlike one who had Bi'ah with the finger, who is a Mukas Etz, and her Kesuvah is 100?! - SEFER NIR)

(Mishnah): If a Besulah was widowed, divorced, or had Chalitzah after Nisu'in, her Kesuvah is 100, and she has no Ta'anas Besulim.

If a girl converted, was redeemed from captivity, or was freed above three years and one day, her Kesuvah is 100, and she has no Ta'anas Besulim.

(Gemara) Question: What is a Besulah from Nisu'in?

Answer (R. Yochanan): She entered Chupah, and witnesses testify that she did not have Bi'ah.

Inference (R. Yosi): If one married a woman b'Chezkas Besulah, and she was found to be Be'ulah, it is not a Mekach Ta'os to make her lose her Kesuvah of 100 (for the Seifa teaches that she has no Ta'anas Besulim).

If one married a woman b'Chazakah that she did not have Zenus (i.e. Bi'ah before she converted or was freed - SEFER NIR), and it was found that she had Zenus, it is not a Mekach Ta'os to make her lose her Kesuvah of 100.

Question (R. Lazar): If one had Bi'ah with a Shifchah that was guarded (from Bi'ah, and found that she was a Besulah), what is the law (is her Kesuvah 200)?

Answer: We learn from the following [Beraisa];

Suggestion: Perhaps one who had Bi'ah with a Shifchah Nochris is liable (to pay a fine)!

Rejection: "Maher Yemaharenah Lo l'Ishah" - one that he could have Havayah (Kidushin) with her. This excludes a Shifchah or someone [else], that he could not have Kidushin with her.

Inference: It is because he could not have Kidushin with her - but if he could have Kidushin with her (e.g. a Shifchah who is not a Nochris), she would have a fine. And anyone who has a fine, she has a Kesuvah [of 200, for she is Muchzekes to be a Besulah]!

Objection (R. Yudan): Does it depend on a fine?! A Bogeres has no fine, yet her Kesuvah is 200! A Besulah from Nisu'in has a fine, yet her Kesuvah is 100!

Answer (R. Ze'ira, in front of R. Mana): [The Beraisa discusses] one who converted or was freed before three years and one day (her Kesuvah is 200).

Rejection (R. Mana): If they converted or were freed before three years and one day, they are like Yisraelim! (The Beraisa would not call her a Shifchah. We explained this like RASHBA.)

A blind girl and Ailonis have Ta'anas Besulim;

Sumchus says in the name of R. Meir, a blind girl has no Ta'anas Besulim.

Question: What is the reason of R. Meir?

Answer: I say that he found [blood] and got rid of it.

Question: What is the reason of Rabanan?

Answer: She can grab [the sheet with blood on it, and keep it].

Question: What does R. Meir do (to reject this answer)?

Answer: He can make the appearance lighter through spit (and it will not look like blood).

(Beraisa): Ta'anas Besulim is until 30 days. R. Meir says so;

Chachamim say, it is immediately.

Question: What is the case?

If he had Bi'ah [with her immediately, all should agree that it is] immediately!

If he did not have Bi'ah [until now, all should agree that it is] even after a long time!

Answer: Rather, the case is Stam (he says that he had Bi'ah only now, but we do not know if this is true). R. Meir says that there is a Chazakah that a man can refrain up to 30 days, and Rabanan say that he cannot refrain even one day.

Question (R. Yirmeyah): According to R. Meir, is [a Yavam] believed to say 'I refrained for 30 days' in order to make the child a Shetuki? (I.e. she became pregnant, and he says that it is not from him. A Shetuki is a Safek Mamzer, for perhaps the father was a Mamzer.)

Answer: We learn from [what was said about a Mishnah in Yevamos 13:14]. If a Yevamah said within 30 days 'I did not have Bi'ah', we force him to do Chalitzah. After 30 days, we request that he do Chalitzah, and R. Lazar said that this is like R. Meir;

And R. Lazar said, this is only for her (since she admits that she did not have Bi'ah, she is forbidden l'Shuk without Chalitzah), but not for her Tzarah (the Tzarah is permitted due to the Chazakah that one cannot refrain);

Just like you say there, that [the Yevamah] is not believed to harm [the Heter l'Shuk of] her Tzarah, also here, [the Yavam] is not believed to harm [what we assume is] his son (make him a Safek Mamzer).