Commentary for Yevamot 105:8

ותיובתא דרב יוסף מי קתני חולץ חלץ קתני דיעבד:

and the Masters hold the opinion that a doubled condition is unnecessary.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The condition being valid, the halizah depending on it, where it is unfulfilled, is invalid. Hence the validity of the levirate formula. ');">¹⁷</span> IF THE LEVIR SUBMITTED TO <i>HALIZAH</i> AND THEN ADDRESSED TO HER A MA'AMAR, GAVE HER A LETTER OF DIVORCE, OR COHABITED WITH HER etc. It should also have been stated, 'No act is valid after cohabitation'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since that section of our Mishnah deals not only with (a) certain acts after halizah but also with (b) certain acts after cohabitation. ');">¹⁸</span> — Both Abaye and Raba replied: Read,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec., 'Both Abaye and Raba read'. The reading that follows actually occurs in Tosef. Yeb. VII. Cf. [H] ');">¹⁹</span>

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