Commentary for Yevamot 100:13

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against cohabitation after <i>halizah</i>;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Were a letter of divorce alone, without halizah, permitted, it might have been assumed that as unlawful cohabitation is so effective it might also be effective enough to annul a previous halizah. ');">⁴⁶</span> and if it is a cohabitation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With one sister-in-law. ');">⁴³</span> after a ma'amar<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the other. ');">⁴⁴</span> a preventive measure had to be made<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. p. 332, n. 26, and p. 330, nn. 2 and 3. ');">⁴⁷</span> against cohabitation after cohabitation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It might have been assumed that as unlawful cohabitation has the force of validity even after a ma'amar which is a legal kinyan, it has also the same force after a kinyan that had been effected through lawful cohabitation. Acting on this argument one would infringe the prohibition of marriage with one's brother's wife. ');">⁴⁸</span> And why did the Rabbis say that after the invalid <i>halizah</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Performed after a divorce or a ma'amar. ');">⁴⁹</span> nothing lingers?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Should the levir subsequent to such a halizah address a ma'amar or give a letter of divorce to a third sister-in-law his act would have no validity whatsoever. ');">⁵⁰</span> — It may be replied: What kind of preventive measure could have been enacted! Should <i>halizah</i> after a letter of divorce be forbidden as a preventive measure against <i>halizah</i> after <i>halizah</i>?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that a levir does not submit to the halizah of two sisters-in-law in succession, and two levirs do not submit in succession to the halizah of one sister-in-law. ');">⁵¹</span> Under such circumstances, surely, <i>halizah</i> might well be indefinitely continued!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And none will be the worse for it. ');">⁵²</span> And should <i>halizah</i> after a ma'amar be forbidden as a preventive measure against <i>halizah</i> after cohabitation?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That it be not assumed that halizah without a letter of divorce is sufficient after an act of cohabitation. ');">⁵³</span> Surely [it may be replied] is not in the case of <i>halizah</i> after a ma'amar, a letter of divorce required in respect of one's ma'amar? So also in the case of <i>halizah</i> after cohabitation, a letter of divorce is required in respect of one's cohabitation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The implication of 'nothing lingers after an unlawful halizah' is the invalidity of all subsequent acts. Any previous act such as ma'amar or cohabitation is valid, and a letter of divorce to annul it is certainly required. ');">⁵⁴</span> Raba said:

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