Commentary for Yevamot 235:8

אמרה מת לי בעלי ואחר כך מת חמי תנשא ותטול כתובתה וחמותה אסורה היתה בת ישראל לכהן תאכל בתרומה דברי רבי טרפון רבי עקיבא אומר אין זו דרך מוציאה מידי עבירה עד שתהא אסורה לינשא ואסורה מלאכול בתרומה:

SO R. TARFON. R. AKIBA, HOWEVER, SAID: THIS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To forbid the rival to marry and to allow her to eat terumah. ');">²⁶</span> IS NOT A WAY THAT WOULD LEAD HER OUT OF THE POWER OF TRANSGRESSION, UNLESS [IT BE ENACTED THAT] SHE SHALL BE FORBIDDEN BOTH TO MARRY AND TO EAT <i>TERUMAH</i>. IF SHE STATED, 'MY HUSBAND DIED FIRST AND MY FATHER-IN-LAW DIED AFTER HIM, SHE MAY MARRY AGAIN AND SHE ALSO RECEIVES HER <i>KETHUBAH</i>, BUT HER MOTHER-IN-LAWS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For whom a daughter-in-law is ineligible to tender evidence. ');">²⁷</span> IS FORBIDDEN.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To marry; though. at the time the evidence in her favour was given. the witness, according to whose evidence her husband died before her father-in-law, was no longer her daughter-in-law. The reason is explained supra 117b. ');">²⁸</span>

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