Commentary for Yevamot 105:11

חלץ וחלץ או חלץ וכו': וליתני נמי אין אחר ביאה כלום אביי ורבא דאמרי תרוייהו תני אין אחר ביאה כלום ותנא דידן התרת יבמה לשוק עדיפא ליה:

but no ma'amar is valid after a ma'amar where it concerns two sisters-in-law and one levir.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The second ma'amar, contrary to the ruling of our Mishnah, has no validity because by the first ma'amar, in the opinion of Ben 'Azzai, the levir had exhausted all his rights. ');">²⁶</span> HOW?&nbsp;… A MA'AMAR TO THE ONE etc. May it be suggested that this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The statement, THE ONE REQUIRES A LETTER OF DIVORCE AND THE OTHER, but not the first to whom the ma'amar had been addressed, MUST PERFORM THE HALIZAH because, obviously, halizah with the first does not exempt the second, her rival. ');">²⁷</span> provides support to a ruling of Samuel, Samuel having stated that if the levir had participated in the <i>halizah</i> with her to whom he addressed a ma'amar, her rival was not thereby exempt; and an objection to the ruling of R. Joseph?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Who stated, supra 44a, 'A man should not pour the water out of his cistern while others may require it', i.e., a levir shall not cause the disqualification, by halizah, of the widow who is not otherwise disqualified, when the halizah could well be performed by the other widow who was in any case disqualified. In our Mishnah, contrary to R. Joseph's ruling, halizah is performed by the second who would in consequence be disqualified from marrying a priest, and not by the first who is already disqualified by the divorce she had been given. ');">²⁸</span>

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