Commentary for Yevamot 43:13

ואימא הכי נמי כיון דלענין יבום מיפטר נפטר

<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. What does the expression ANY KIND include? Rab Judah said: It includes a bastard. Is not this obvious? Surely, he is his brother! — It might have been assumed that 'brotherhood'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Brethren in the context of the levirate relationship, Deut. XXV, 5. ');">³²</span> here should be deduced from 'brotherhood' in the case of the sons of Jacob;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XLII, 13, twelve brethren. ');">³³</span> as there they were all legitimate and untainted, so here also [the brothers must be] legitimate and untainted; hence we were taught [that it is not so]. [Might we still suggest that it is so?] — Since he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A bastard. ');">³⁴</span> has at any rate the power to confer exemption from the levirate marriage<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A woman whose husband died without leaving any issue from their union may. nevertheless, be exempt from the requirements of the levirate marriage if that husband had a bastard son. ');">³⁵</span>

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