Commentary for Yevamot 104:8

תניא נמי הכי אמר רבי אין הדברים הללו אמורים אלא לדברי ר' עקיבא שהיה עושה חלוצה כערוה אבל חכמים אומרים יש אחר חליצה כלום ואני אומר אימתי בזמן שקדשה לשום אישות אבל קדשה לשום יבמות אין אחר חליצה כלום

[i.e., immediately] after sending her away'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even before she had been married to a second husband. (V. Deut, XXIV, 2-4). The superfluous expression 'who sent her away' implies that divorce in a certain case, viz., in that of a sister-in-law, causes the permanent prohibition of the divorced woman to the man who divorced her immediately after divorce had taken place. Now, since betrothal of a sister-in-law by a levir who divorced her is forbidden by the negative precept of Deut. XXIV, 4, how could a ma'amar addressed to her after divorce have any validity? ');">²²</span> R. Ashi replied: A divorce given by levirs is only Rabbinically valid,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pentateuchally it has no validity at all. ');">²³</span> and the Scriptural text is a mere prop.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the prohibition is not Pentateuchal the ma'amar is obviously valid. ');">²⁴</span>

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