Commentary for Yevamot 36:11

בשלמא יבם ואח"כ נולד כי אשכחה בהתירא אשכחה אלא נולד ואח"כ יבם מאי טעמא קסבר יש זיקה וזיקה ככנוסה דמיא

are prepared to go. It would, indeed, have been logical for R. Simeon to express his dissent in the first case, but he waited for the Rabbis to conclude their statement and then he expressed his dissent with their entire statement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'against them'. ');">⁴⁶</span> How, in view of what has been said,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'but'; if R. Simeon permits marriage in both cases. ');">⁴⁷</span> is it possible according to R. Simeon to find a case of 'a wife of his brother who was not his contemporary'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To be forbidden the levirate marriage in accordance with the statement in the first Mishnah of the Tractate, supra 2b ab init. ');">⁴⁸</span> — In the case of one brother who died and a second brother was subsequently<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to him'. ');">⁴⁹</span> born;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The levirate relationship here is entirely due to the deceased brother who was not the surviving brother's contemporary; and marriage is. therefore, rightly forbidden. ');">⁵⁰</span>

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