Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 233:17

ורבנן (משלי כז, יט) כמים הפנים לפנים כן לב האדם לאדם ורבי יהודה ההיא בדברי תורה כתיב

R. Aha b. 'Awya said: In the West<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Palestine, which lay on the West of Babylon. ');">⁵⁸</span> they asked: What is the ruling in respect of a potential<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit.. 'that comes afterwards'. i.e., the mother of the levir and stepmother of the husband of the woman in question. who might become her mother-in-law if her husband died childless and she had to contract the levirate marriage with the levir. ');">⁵⁹</span> mother-in-law?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Is she eligible as witness if she testifies that her stepson is dead in consequence of which the wife of the deceased must either marry her son or perform halizah with him and marry a stranger (Rashi). [R. Hananel (v. Lewin B. M. Ozar ha-Geonim, Yebamoth p. 334) explains the problem differently. viz., can a woman give evidence on behalf of her potential mother-in-law? Where. for instance, Jacob had two wives, Leah and Rachel, the former of whom bore him a son, Reuben, and the latter, Joseph; and the question arises whether the wife of Reuben may testify as to the death of Jacob, her father-in-law, permitting the remarriage of Rachel, her potential mother-in-law. For should her own husband Reuben die, she would have to contract levirate marriage with his brother Joseph. Rachel thus becoming her mother-in-law]. ');">⁶⁰</span> Does it occur to her that [this woman's]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For whom she tenders evidence. ');">⁶¹</span>

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