Commentary for Yevamot 188:5

דתניא כל עריות שבתורה אין צריכות הימנו גט חוץ מאשת איש שנשאת על פי ב"ד ור"ע מוסיף אף אשת אח ואחות אשה וכיון דאמר ר"ע בעיא גט ממילא איתסרא עליה דהויא לה אחות גרושתו

would be the sister of his divorcee!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With whom marital relationship is forbidden. The second wife, according to R. Akiba, as will tentatively be shown anon, must be divorced. ');">¹⁴</span> For it was taught: None of the women In incestuous marriages forbidden in the Torah require a letter of divorce,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If they were married, such an unlawful marriage being regarded as mere harlotry. ');">¹⁵</span> except a married woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose husband is reported, by one witness, to be dead. ');">¹⁶</span> who remarried in accordance with the decision of the <i>Beth din</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who accepted the evidence; and later the husband returned. In such a case the women requires a divorce from her second husband also. V. infra 88b. ');">¹⁷</span>

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