Commentary for Yevamot 221:9

אי רבי נחמיה אימא סיפא מי שהיה נשוי שתי יתומות קטנה וחרשת ומת בא יבם על הקטנה וחזר ובא על החרשת או שבא אחיו על החרשת נאסרו שתיהן עליו כיצד תקנתן חרשת יוצאת בגט וקטנה תמתין עד שתגדיל ותחלוץ

R. Nehemiah who ruled that an unlawful cohabitation exempts [a widow] from <i>halizah</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 50b. Hence the permissibility for the deaf widow to marry again after she had been divorced. ');">²⁸</span> If [this statement represents the view of] R. Nehemiah read the final clause: 'If a man was married to two orphans,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 774 n. 10. ');">²⁹</span> one of whom was a minor and the other deaf, and died 'and the levir cohabited with the minor and then cohabited with the deaf widow, or a brother of his cohabited with the deaf widow,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After the former had cohabited with the minor. ');">³⁰</span> both are forbidden to him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reason is given infra. ');">³¹</span>

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