Commentary for Sotah 48:5

כשמואל דאמר לא קנה אלא לדברים האמורים בפרשה

— It is as Samuel said: He has only acquired her for the objects mentioned in the Scriptural portion.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXV, 5-10. viz., to be his brother's heir and free himself from the ceremony of Halizah; but cohabitation would not constitute a marriage to give her the right to partake of the heave.offering if he was a priest. ');">⁹</span> If that is so, are we to say that Rab agrees with R. Joshiah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who says that a childless widow waiting for her levir drinks, and that can arise in the case where the cohabitation occurred in her father's house. ');">¹⁰</span>

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