Commentary for Yevamot 20:1
If his mother, however, was a woman that had been outraged by his father and was then married to his paternal brother who subsequently died, such a mother does exempt her rival.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since her marriage with the deceased brother was not unlawful, her rival (any other wife of her husband) is subject to the same laws as any other rival in the case of the fifteen relatives of our Mishnah. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> And though the Sages taught in our Mishnah FIFTEEN we must add a case like this as a sixteenth. Resh Lakish said to R. Johanan: According to Levi who maintains that an 'if'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. p. 47, n. 4, supra. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
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