Commentary for Yevamot 184:7

ואי בעית אימא לעולם כדאמרן מעיקרא קדושין אין בה נשואין יש בה דמיחלפא באשה שהלך בעלה למדינת הים

gives her a letter of divorce and she is permitted to the levir.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to him'. ');">²³</span> R. Giddal stated in the name of R. Hiyya b. Joseph in the name of Rab: While betrothal with a sister-in-law<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who, before she performed halizah with the levir had married a stranger. ');">²⁴</span> is invalid, marriage with her is valid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This validity, it is at present assumed, subjects the woman to the necessity of a letter of divorce. ');">²⁵</span> If betrothal, however, is invalid, marriage also should be invalid! — Read: Both betrothal and marriage with her are invalid. And if you prefer I might say. What is meant by 'marriage with her is valid'? — It constitutes an act of<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'In'. ');">²⁶</span>

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