Commentary for Yevamot 217:6

אדרבה חזרה כיון דיתבא תותיה אית ליה קלא מי לא עסקינן דאהדרה באורתא ושכיב בצפרא

that subjects her to it, then there was a period when she was forbidden to him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 4. Hence levirate marriage is forbidden (owing to the second possibility), and halizah is necessary (owing to the first). ');">¹⁷</span> Raba said: It was in fact obvious to R. Eleazar that it is death<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the childless husband, ');">¹⁴</span> that subjects [the widow to the levirate marriage], but while all well know of the divorce, not all are aware of the remarriage.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Should the levir, therefore, be permitted to contract with her the levirate marriage, it might be assumed by those who knew of the divorce and not of the remarriage that he married his brother's divorcee. Hence R. Eleazar's prohibition. ');">¹⁸</span> On the contrary! Remarriage gets noised abroad since the woman dwells with him! — Do we not, however, deal here [even with such a case as] where he remarried her in the evening and died in the morning?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Certainly we do, since the Mishnah applies to all possible cases. In such a case as the one mentioned the remarriage remains unknown. ');">¹⁹</span>

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