Commentary for Yevamot 34:12

ולימא הלכה כדברי האומר אין זיקה אפי' בחד אי אמר הכי הוה אמינא אפילו מחיים קמשמע לן לאחר מיתה אין מחיים לא משום דאסור לבטל מצות יבמין

a forbidden relative<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A brother's wife. ');">³⁶</span> having been permitted, the brotherhood must, therefore, be both paternal and maternal; [hence it was] necessary [to teach us that the law was not so]. R. Huna said in the name of Rab: If a woman awaiting the decision of the levir!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] a woman during the period between the death of her husband and the levirate marriage or halizah. ');">³⁷</span> died, [the levir] is permitted to marry her mother. This obviously shews that he!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rab. ');">³⁸</span>

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