Commentary for Yevamot 108:26

ואם בא על השניה לאחר מיתת הראשונה מותר בשניה וברביעית ופוטרות צרותיהן ואסור בשלישית ובחמישית

so here also, he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The husband of his aunt. ');">⁶²</span> must be paternal<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His father's paternal brother. ');">⁶³</span> and not [necessarily] maternal. And whence is it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the relationship must be paternal. ');">⁶⁴</span> proved there? — Scripture stated, Of his family may redeem him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXV, 49. ');">⁶⁰</span> and only a father's family may be called the proper family, but the mother's family cannot be called the proper family.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra note 7. ');">⁶⁵</span> But surely we learned: If a man was told, 'Your wife is dead', and he married her paternal sister; [and when he was told] 'She<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His second wife. ');">⁶⁶</span> also is dead', he married her maternal sister; 'She<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His third wife. ');">⁶⁷</span> too is dead', and he married her paternal sister; 'She<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The fourth. ');">⁶⁸</span> also is dead', and he married her maternal sister, he is permitted<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If it is found that all these are alive. ');">⁶⁹</span> to live with the first,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the marriage with her was valid. ');">⁷⁰</span> third<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the union with the second was unlawful, on account of her being his wife's sister, the marriage with her had no validity. As she is not his wife, her sister is a perfect stranger to the man who married them both in succession. The marriage with her sister (his third wife) is consequently valid. ');">⁷¹</span> and fifth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The union with the fourth being unlawful, owing to the legal marriage with her sister (the third wife) the marriage with the fifth is consequently legal. Cf. note 5. ');">⁷²</span> who also exempt their rivals;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he died without issue, and one of his brothers submitted to halizah from one of them. ');">⁷³</span> but he is forbidden to live with the second and the fourth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the legality of his marriage with the first and third renders them respectively forbidden as 'his wife's sister'. Cf. note 5. ');">⁷⁴</span> and cohabitation with one of these does not exempt her rival. If, however, he cohabited with the second after the death of the first, he is permitted to live with the second<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the death of the first has removed from her the prohibition of 'wife's sister', the marriage with her is legal. ');">⁷⁵</span> and with the fourth<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the marriage with the second was legally valid, that with the third (as wife's sister) was invalid. The fourth (sister of the third) being in consequence a mere stranger is therefore permitted to be married. Cf. supra note 5. ');">⁷⁶</span> who also exempt their rivals,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he died without issue, and one of his brothers submitted to halizah from one of them. ');">⁷³</span> but he is forbidden to live<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. previous notes mutatis mutandis. ');">⁷⁷</span> with the third and with the fifth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 96a. ');">⁷⁸</span>

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