Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 168:1

וכי תימא קסבר האי תנא נישואין הראשונים מפילין הרי חלל שנשא כשרה ולא אמרינן נישואין הראשונים מפילין

And should you reply that this Tanna holds the opinion that the original marriage<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the deceased brother. ');">¹</span> causes the subjection;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the woman to the levirate marriage, i.e., the widow's status at the time of her husband's death is determined by the status in which she found herself when he married her, not by that in which his death placed her, consequently if at the time of the marriage she was a virgin she would not have been regarded as a widow and would, therefore, have been permitted to marry a priest. ');">²</span>

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