Jewish%20thought for Yevamot 83:12

האי משום תקנת ולד דלא לפגע בהו ערוה

setting his mother free to marry anybody<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to the market'. Should his mother's second husband die without having had any other children his mother would be deemed to be free from the levirate obligations on the assumption that he was the son of the second husband. ');">¹⁹</span> and releasing his sister-in-law to all the world.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to the market'. If his brother (the son of his mother's first husband from another wife) dies childless and is survived by no other known brother his widow would be released to marry any stranger on the assumption that he had no surviving brother, while in reality the widow is bound to him by the levirate bond. ');">²⁰</span>

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