Commentary for Yevamot 188:7

והאי אחות אשה נמי היכי דמי כגון שקידש את אשה והלכה למדינת הים ושמע שמתה עמד ונשא את אחותה דאמרי אינשי הך קמייתא תנאי הוה ליה בקדושיה והא שפיר נסיב אלא נשואין מי איכא למימר תנאה הוה ליה בנשואין

requires a letter of divorce, [his first wife] becomes ipso facto forbidden to him because she is the sister of his divorcee!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How, then, could it be said in our Mishnah that his first wife is PERMITTED TO RETURN TO HIM? ');">²²</span> Was not, however, the following statement made in connection with this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Akiba's. ');">²³</span> ruling: R. Giddal said in the name of R. Hiyya b. Joseph in the name of Rab, 'How is one to understand this "brother's wife"?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In whose case a letter of divorce is required. ');">²⁴</span> Where a man's brother, for instance, betrothed a woman and went to a country beyond the sea, and he,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The brother at home. ');">²⁵</span>

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