Commentary for Yevamot 222:19

יבמה שאמרה בתוך שלשים יום וכו': מאן תנא דעד תלתין יומין מוקים איניש אנפשיה

cannot be applied at the time when she becomes subject to the levirate marriage, is indeed like the wife of a brother who has children, and is consequently forbidden!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 30a; for all time, even when the cause of her prohibition had ceased to exist. Were not the minor then permitted the levirate marriage, this prohibition would not have been removed even after he had attained majority. ');">⁴⁶</span> But then might it not be suggested that this same [principle is applicable here] also?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that a levir who was a minor at the time his brother died may never contract levirate marriage. ');">⁴⁷</span> — Scripture said, If brethren dwell together,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXV, 5. ');">⁴⁸</span>

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