Commentary for Yevamot 116:11

וכי תימא הכא נמי יש לו להאכילה בחוזרת חוזרת פסקה מיניה וקרובה לבי נשא אבל הא אגידא ביה:

a letter of divorce:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which Rabbinically causes her prohibition to the levir, while Pentateuchally she is still awaiting cohabitation with him. She is thus awaiting a cohabitation which is Rabbinically forbidden. ');">²⁸</span> R. Johanan maintains that she may eat, and Resh Lakish maintains that she may not eat. 'R. Johanan maintains that she may eat', for even the statement of R. Meir who holds that she may not eat applies only to one subject of a Pentateuchally forbidden cohabitation; where, however, it is only Rabbinically forbidden she may eat. 'And Resh Lakish maintains that she may not eat' for even the statement of R. Eleazar and R. Simeon, who hold that she may eat, applies only to one who has elsewhere the right<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Through a similar act of betrothal. ');">²⁹</span> to confer the privilege of eating, but not in this case,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where a letter of divorce was given. ');">³⁰</span>

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