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Our daf relates that Rav was approached and asked about the personal status of someone who had a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father.
When Rav replied that he believed such a person to be perfectly acceptable, the questioner – who was, apparently, the product of such a union – asked to marry Rav’s daughter. Rav refused.
Upon witnessing the exchange, Rav’s grandson, Shimi bar Chiya asked: ‘People say that in Media a camel can dance on a kab (a small measure); here is the kab, here is the camel and here is Media, but there is no dancing’ – i.e. people exaggerate about events that happen in a far-away place, but here, when your ruling is being put to the test, you are not willing to support your position with an action. Rav replied that even if this man were like Yehoshua bin Nun, he would not be willing to allow his daughter to marry him.
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