ולילף אחוה אחוה מעריות דנין אחים מאחים ואין דנין אחים מאחיך
so here also [the brotherhood spoken of is that] from the father and not from the mother.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' B.B. 110b, infra 22a.
');"><sup>12</sup></span> Let him rather deduce this 'brotherhood'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression 'brethren' in Deut. xxv, 5' in relation to the levirate marriage.
');"><sup>8</sup></span> from the 'brotherhood' of forbidden relatives!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The nakedness of thy brother's wife (Lev. XVIII, 26) which includes (v. infra 55a) the wife of a maternal brother.
');"><sup>13</sup></span> — Brethren<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression 'brethren' in Deut. xxv, 5' in relation to the levirate marriage.
');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory blessed, said (Yevamot 17b), "'When brothers dwell together' - to exclude the wife of a brother who was not in his world"; meaning that [then] she does not have an obligation of levirate marriage and not of release - for example, [if] this brother was born after his brother [that was married and had no children] died. And that which they also inferred (Yevamot 17b), "'Brothers together' - that are together in inheritance, to exclude brothers [born only] from the mother," who are not obligated in levirate marriage and release. "'And has no (ein) son' - look into (ayen) him" (Yevamot 22b). [This is] meaning to say that if the brother did have a son or daughter from any place, or the son of a son or the son of a daughter or the daughter of a daughter or any one that came out from his 'thigh' - there is no commandment of levirate marriage or release there, for the reason that we mentioned concerning the commandment of levirate marriage.
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