Commentary for Yevamot 53:12

תניא כוותיה דרב אשי חלץ לאחיות לא נפטרו צרות הא לצרות נפטרו אחיות מאי טעמא לאו משום דקסבר יש זיקה ולא אלימא זיקה לשוייה לצרה כערוה

he may finish even with the sisters,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He may participate in halizah not only with the rival of the second sister and thus exempt the sister herself, but also with the second sister and thus exempt her rival. ');">⁴⁴</span> for we learned, 'A man is permitted to marry the relative of the rival of his haluzah'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rachel (the second sister), being the relative of Leah (the first sister) who is the 'rival' of the haluzah, is consequently permitted to marry the levir, and her halizah is, therefore, perfectly valid and exempts also her rival. ');">⁴⁵</span> R. Ashi said: Your former assumption<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the rivals are not exempted by the halizah of the sisters, owing to its defectiveness which is due to the existence of the levirate bond (cf. supra p. 164, n. 21). ');">⁴⁶</span> may still be upheld, and [yet no difficulty<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As to why the halizah of the rival of the relative of a haluzah should be more valid than that of the relative of the haluzah herself (v. supra p. 266, n. 2). ');">⁴⁷</span>

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