## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 247

###### Sifrei Devarim 247:1
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(דברים כג ב) **לֹא יָבֹא פְצוּעַ דַּכָּא**, אֵיזֶהוּ פְּצוּעַ דַּכָּא? כָּל שֶׁנִּפְצְעוּ הַבֵּיצִים שֶׁלּוֹ, וַאֲפִלּוּ אַחַת מֵהֶן. אֵין לִי אֶלָּא כֻּלָּן, מִנַּיִן אַף מִקְצָתָן? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: [**דַּכָּא**].

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim 23:2) "A *petzua dakah* and a *kruth shafchah* shall not come into the congregation of the L-rd.": What is a "*petzua dakah*"? One whose testicles have been injured ("*niftzeu*") — even one of them. This tells me only of the whole of it. Whence do I derive (the same for) even part of it? From *dakah* (lit., "crushed," but not entirely).


###### Sifrei Devarim 247:2
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**וּכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה** כָּל שֶׁנִּכְרַת הַגִּיד.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"and a *kruth shafchah*": wherever the organ is cut.


###### Sifrei Devarim 247:3
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אָמַר רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל בְּרַבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן בְּרוֹקָה: שָׁמַעְתִּי בְּכֶרֶם בְּיַבְנֶה, מִי שֶׁאֵין לוֹ אֶלָּא בֵּיצָה אַחַת זֶהוּ סְרִיס חַמָּה. מַה בֵּין פְּצוּעַ דַּכָּא לִכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה? אֶלָּא שֶׁפְּצוּעַ דַּכָּא חוֹזֵר וּכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה אֵינוֹ חוֹזֵר, זוֹ הִלְכַּת רוֹפְאִים.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
R. Yishmael the son of R. Yochanan b. Beroka said: I heard in Kerem Beyavneh that a man who has only one (testicle) is a *saris chamah* (a eunuch from the time of seeing the sun. i.e., one born without visible testicles. [This has various halachic implications.]) What is the difference between a *petzua dakah* and a *kruth shafchah*? A *petzuah dakah* can recover (from the injury); a *kruth shafchah* cannot. This is one of the "halachoth" of doctors.


###### Sifrei Devarim 247:4
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**בִּקְהַל ה׳**, רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: אַרְבַּע קְהִלּוֹת הֵן: קְהַל כֹּהֲנִים קְהַל לְוִיִּם קְהַל יִשְׂרָאֵל קְהַל גֵּרִים.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"into the congregation of the L-rd": the congregation of Cohanim, the congregation of Levites, the congregation of Israelites, and the congregation of proselytes.


###### Sifrei Devarim 247:5
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וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמְרִים: שָׁלֹשׁ.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
The sages say: There are only three. (He omits the congregation of proselytes.)