Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 224:1

מבקשין מיבעי ליה הכא במאי עסקינן באשה שיש לה בנים דכולי האי לא מסקה אדעתה

it should have been [stated that he is only] to be requested!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And not compelled; since it is the woman's fault that the levirate marriage cannot be contracted. ');">¹</span> — What we are dealing with here is the case of a woman who has children, so that such a remote possibility<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'that all this', i.e., that all her children as well as her husband would die, and that the death of the former would precede that of the latter. ');">²</span>

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