Commentary for Yevamot 37:16

אלא אמר רב אשי אי דנפול בזה אחר זה הכי נמי הכא במאי עסקינן דנפול בבת אחת ורבי שמעון סבר לה כרבי יוסי הגלילי דאמר אפשר לצמצם

But, said R. Ashi: If they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The widows. ');">⁴³</span> had become subject [to the levir] one after the other, the law would indeed have been so.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the 'levirate bond' in the case of one levir being recognized even by R. Simeon as being as forcible as actual marriage. the levir (the third brother) marries the first while the other is exempt, though her husband (the second brother) died before he actually married the first. ');">⁴⁴</span> Here,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Mishnah cited by R. Oshaia in objection against the view attributing to R. Simeon a distinction between one levir and two levirs. ');">⁴⁵</span>

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