Commentary for Yevamot 79:17

הכונס את יבמתו וכו': מ"ט (דברים כה, ו) יקום על שם אחיו אמר רחמנא והרי קם:

how [it could be retorted] is one to imagine [such a dumpling]? If it is unleavened, well, then it is unleavened;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And is not forbidden at all. ');">²⁸</span> and if it is not unleavened, the All Merciful, surely, has said without leaven!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Take the meal-offering&nbsp;… and eat it without leaven (Lev. X, 12); what need then was there for repeating the same prohibition in Lev. VI, 9? ');">²⁹</span>

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