Commentary for Yevamot 222:20

אמר רבי יוחנן רבי מאיר היא דתניא טענת בתולים כל שלשים יום דברי רבי מאיר

even if [one brother is only] one day old.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Must the levirate marriage he contracted, cf. ibid. ');">⁴⁹</span> IF A SISTER-IN-LAW DECLARED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS etc. Who is it that taught that up to thirty days<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After his marriage. ');">⁵⁰</span> a man may restrain himself?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From cohabitation. This being evidently the reason why in our Mishnah the woman's statement is accepted as true. ');">⁵¹</span>

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