Commentary for Yevamot 37:1

מבית אחד יבומי חדא ואיפטור אידך לא דדלמא אין זיקה ככנוסה והוו להו שתי יבמות הבאות משני בתים אלמא מספקא ליה

from one house.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' One as actual, the other as virtual wife of the same husband, the second brother. The Torah required the levir 'to build up his brother's house' (Deut. XXV, 9) from which it is inferred that it is his duty to build up only a house but not houses, i.e., to marry his brother's one wife but not his two wives. ');">¹</span> Nor must he take one In levirate marriage and thereby exempt the other, for it is possible that the levirate bond is not as binding as actual marriage, and the two sisters-in-law would thus be coming from two houses.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Both of whom are subject to the levirate marriage. and one of whom cannot exempt the other. ');">²</span> From this it clearly follows that he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Simeon. ');">³</span>

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