Commentary for Yevamot 36:15

רבי שמעון אומר מייבם לאיזהו מהן שירצה חולץ לשניה יבומי תרוייהו לא דדלמא יש זיקה והוו שני יבמות הבאות

only she<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' May be taken in levirate marriage. ');">⁶⁶</span> who is tied to one levir,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. supra p. 98, n. 8. ');">⁶⁷</span> but not she who is tied to two levirs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p' 97' n. 16. ');">⁶⁸</span> R. Simeon said: He<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The levir. ');">⁶⁹</span> may take in levirate marriage whichever of them he pleases<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Simeon does not recognize a double bond. If the ma'amar addressed by the second brother was binding. the bond with the first brother, he maintains, was thereby severed, and there remains only the bond with the second; and if it was not binding then again only one bond exists, that with the first brother. ');">⁷⁰</span> and submits to the <i>halizah</i> of the other.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 31b. For the reason given anon. ');">⁷¹</span> He must not take both widows in levirate marriage since it is possible that a levirate bond exists<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Between the levir (the second brother) and the first widow. ');">⁷²</span> and thus the two sisters-in-law<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The second brother's actual wife and the widow of the first to whom he addressed a ma'amar and who is his virtual wife. ');">⁷³</span> would be coming

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