Commentary for Yevamot 112:3

לא מאי וכן אהעראה העראה דמאן אילימא דעריות למימרא דעריות ילפי' מיבמה אדרבה יבמה ילפינן מעריות דעיקר העראה בעריות כתיב

'To the first stage' with whom? If it be suggested, 'With one of the forbidden relatives', does this then imply [it might be retorted] that the case of the forbidden relatives is derived from that of the sister-in-law?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the law in the latter is made to apply by comparison also to the former. ');">⁷</span> On the contrary, the case of the sister-in-law was derived from the forbidden relatives, since the original prohibition of the first stage was written in connection with the forbidden relatives! — Rather, SIMILARLY refers<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what'. ');">⁸</span> to Unnatural intercourse with forbidden relatives.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The meaning being that as with the sister-in-law so with the other forbidden relatives kinyan is constituted IRRESPECTIVE OF THE NATURE OF THE INTERCOURSE, even if it was unnatural. Cf. supra p. 378, n. 6 second clause. ');">⁹</span>

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