Commentary for Yevamot 72:16

אמר ליה רבינא לרב משרשיא

died within thirty days<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of his birth. ');">⁴³</span> and she<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His mother, the widow of his deceased father. ');">⁴⁴</span> was subsequently<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'stood up.' ');">⁴⁵</span> betrothed,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To a stranger; believing that the birth of the child was sufficient to exempt her from the obligations of the levirate marriage and the halizah. ');">⁴⁶</span> Rabina said in the name of Raba that if she<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His mother, the widow of his deceased father. ');">⁴⁴</span> was the wife of an Israelite<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if the man who betrothed her was an Israelite who may marry a haluzah. ');">⁴⁷</span> she must perform the <i>halizah</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With the levir. ');">⁴⁸</span> and if she was the wife of a priest<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra 8. A priest may not marry a haluzah. ');">⁴⁹</span> she must not perform the <i>halizah</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Were she to perform it. her husband could not subsequently be allowed to live with her. Hence she is granted exemption from halizah by virtue of the child's birth alone. ');">⁵⁰</span> R. Mesharsheya<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. 'Sherabya', v. Shab. 136b. ');">⁵¹</span> said in the name of Raba: The one as well as the other must perform the <i>halizah</i>. Said Rabina to R. Mesharsheya:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Var. lec. 'Sherabya', v. Shab. 136b. ');">⁵¹</span>

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