Commentary for Yevamot 108:8

אלא העראה דכתיבא גבי אחות אב ואחות אם למה לי

that is derived from a positive one<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Her husband's brother shall go in unto her after the death of his brother. ');">¹⁹</span> it has only the force of a positive commandment!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The penalty for the transgression of which is not that of kareth. Whence therefore can he traced in the Bible that the penalty involved is kareth? ');">²⁰</span> — Scripture stated: <i>And if a man shall take his brother's wife, she is a menstruant</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 359, n. 5. ');">²¹</span>

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