Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Yevamot 42:17

ולטעמיך שיבסרי הויין דהא איכא אשת אחי האם מן האם דפשטינן לאיסורא הא לא קשיא

'I saw the [list of] forbidden relatives of the second degree of Mar the son of Rabana<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or Rabina. ');"><sup>42</sup></span> and sixteen were written down as forbidden cases. Would they not be the eight of the Baraitha,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 21a. ');"><sup>43</sup></span> the six of the School of R. Hiyya,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 22a. ');"><sup>44</sup></span> and these two,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Those of Amemar, agreed to by R. Ashi. V. supra p. 128. n. 20. ');"><sup>45</sup></span> in all sixteen? — But according to your view there should be seventeen, since there is also the case of the wife of a mother's maternal brother, who in accordance with our decision is forbidden!' — 'This is no difficulty.

Sefer HaChinukh

From the laws of the commandment is, for example, that which they, may their memory be blessed, forbade (Yevamot 21b) - to make a fence for this - the daughter-in-law of his son and likewise the daughter-in-law of the son of his son, to the end of the world. And they also forbade only the daughter-in-law of his daughter. And the reason is similar to that which we said above - since the prohibition came in the verse about his daughter-in-law, they decreed about all daughters-in-law that come on account of the son; and they decreed with [the daughter-in-law of] the daughter only, and that is enough for us with that. And these are called secondary [prohibitions].
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