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3) A KOHEN'S WIFE THAT WAS DEFILED

(a) Answer (Rav Papa and his colleagues): (The original law of) our Mishnah says, a woman that says 'I was defiled' receives a Kesuvah;

1. It cannot be that her husband is a Yisrael.

i. If she says that she willingly committed adultery, she clearly forfeits her Kesuvah!
ii. If she says that she was raped, she is permitted to her husband!

2. Rather, her husband must be a Kohen.

i. If she says that she willingly committed adultery, she forfeits her Kesuvah, just as a Yisrael's wife!
ii. Rather, she says that she was raped, and the Mishnah says that she receives her Kesuvah!

(b) Question: What if she tells her husband (in front of Beis Din) 'You divorced me'?
(c) Answer (Rav Hamnuna - Mishnah): A wife that says 'I was defiled'... - even the revised law only says she is not believed because her husband does not know, so she is brazen to lie about this;

1. But her husband would know whether he divorced her - it is established that a wife is not so brazen to lie in front of her husband like this!

(d) Objection (Rava): Just the contrary! Even the original law of the Mishnah only said that a wife is believed because she would not lie to disgrace herself (to say she was defiled);

1. But to say 'You divorced me' - a woman angry with her husband may have the audacity to say this.

(e) Question (Rav Mesharshiya): The original law of the Mishnah says that a wife is believed to say 'Heaven is between me and you', even though this is no disgrace to herself!
(f) Answer (Rava): To say that - which means, his semen does not shoot out - is an awesome disgrace to him, she is not so brazen to lie about such a matter.
(g) Question: The revised law of the Mishnah says that a wife is not believed to say 'Heaven is between me and you';

1. She knows that her husband knows the truth - it takes great audacity to lie about this, yet she is not believed - this refutes Rav Hamnuna!

(h) Answer (Rav Hamnuna): The husband knows that he has relations, but does not if his semen shoots out, so she is able to lie about this.

(a) There was a woman that used to bring water for her husband to wash the morning after they would have relations. One morning she brought for him, and he remarked that they did not have relations the previous night.

1. The wife: If so, I must have had relations with one of the Nochri spice peddlers (her husband was a Kohen; this would forbid her to him).

2. Rav Nachman: She wants to make her husband divorce her, because she desires to marry someone else; we give no credence to her words.

(b) Once, a certain woman was not jovial with her husband as usual.

1. The husband: What changed?
2. The wife: Until now, you never hurt me during relations.
3. The husband: We did not have relations now!
4. The wife: If so, I must have had relations with one of the Nochri kerosene peddlers.
5. Rav Nachman (to the husband): Don't be concerned for her words - she wants to make you divorce her, because she desires to marry someone else.

(c) A man was with a married woman in her house; the house was locked. The husband came home; the man broke through the fence and fled.

1. Rava: She is permitted to her husband - had the man had relations with her, he would have hid himself, from fear.

(d) An adulterer entered a woman's house; her husband came, and the adulterer hid in the doorway. The husband was about to eat some cress from which a snake had eaten; his wife did not see that he was about to eat.

1. The adulterer warned the husband not to eat from the cress, because a snake had eaten from it.
2. Rava: She is permitted to her husband - had the man had relations with her, he would want the husband to die - "They had adultery, and blood was in their hands".
3. Question: This is obvious!
4. Answer: One might have thought, he had relations with her; he wanted the husband to live, in order that the wife should be forbidden - "Stolen waters are sweeter, (stolen) bread eaten in hiding is tastier" - we hear, this is not so.