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How do we apply chazakot when a married woman was mezana? Tosafot relies on cheskat heter leba'al, while the Rosh uses cheskat tzadekes. The shiur shows how these different chazakot lead to fundamentally different rulings about whether the issur is mid'oraisa or mid'rabanan.
The shiur provides an in-depth analysis of a complex sugya in Kesubos regarding the halachic status of a married woman who was mezana, focusing on the fundamental disagreement between Rishonim about which chazaka (legal presumption) to apply. The discussion centers on two primary cases: eishes kohen and eishes Yisrael. Rabbi Zweig explains that Tosafot employs cheskat heter leba'al (presumption that she was permitted to her husband), arguing that we maintain the status quo unless proven otherwise. According to this approach, there are conflicting chazakot - one that the incident happened earlier (when she was mutar) and another that her physical state didn't change until as late as possible. Due to these conflicting chazakot, we cannot rely on chazaka alone, making it only an issur d'rabanan.
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Kesubos 9a
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