Commentary for Yevamot 57:7

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> זו היא למעוטי מאי למעוטי הך דר' יהושע דלא עבדינן כוותיה אלא אי כר"ג אי כר"א

AND BY <i>HALIZAH</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A ma'amar, according to Beth Hillel, does not constitute a proper marriage, and she is now the sister of a zekukah. V. following note. ');">²⁰</span> AND HIS BROTHER'S WIFE BY <i>HALIZAH</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. previous note. As the ma'amar did not constitute a proper marriage with her sister she is the sister of a zekukah who may not contract levirate marriage but must perform halizah. ');">²¹</span> THIS IS THE CASE IN REGARD TO WHICH IT WAS SAID: WOE TO HIM BECAUSE OF HIS WIFE, AND WOE TO HIM BECAUSE OF HIS BROTHER'S WIFE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra 109a. The second widow who becomes subject to him through the levirate law is not only herself forbidden to marry him (cf. note 10) but deprives him also of the first widow, his virtual wife. (Cf. note 9)- ');">²²</span>

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