Commentary for Yevamot 59:12

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> שלשה אחים שנים מהם נשואין שתי אחיות ואחד נשוי נכרית גירש אחד מבעלי אחיות את אשתו ומת נשוי נכרית וכנסה המגרש ומת זו היא שאמרו וכולן שמתו או נתגרשו צרותיהן מותרות:

<b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF TWO OF THREE BROTHERS WERE MARRIED TO TWO SISTERS AND THE THIRD WAS MARRIED TO A STRANGER, AND ONE OF THE SISTERS' HUSBANDS DIVORCED HIS WIFE, AND WHEN THE BROTHER WHO WAS MARRIED TO THE STRANGER DIED HE WHO HAD DIVORCED HIS WIFE MARRIED HER AND THEN DIED HIMSELF- THIS IS A CASE CONCERNING WHICH IT WAS SAID: AND IF ANY OF-THESE DIED OR WERE DIVORCED. THEIR RIVALS ARE PERMITTED.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The stranger who was taken in levirate marriage was never the rival of the sister of the wife of the surviving brother, since the sister had been divorced before the levirate marriage with the stranger had taken place. ');">⁴⁸</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. The reason<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why the stranger who was taken in levirate marriage by one of the husbands of the sisters is permitted to the last surviving brother. ');">⁴⁹</span> is because he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The brother who divorced his wife. ');">⁵⁰</span> had divorced [his wife first] and [his brother]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first husband of the stranger. ');">⁵¹</span> died afterwards,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that the stranger was not even for one moment the rival of one of the sisters, either through marriage or through the levirate bond of subjection. ');">⁵²</span>

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