Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 37:2

וכי תימא מדאורייתא ה"נ דמייבמא חדא ומפטרא חדא ומדרבנן הוא דאסור גזירה משום שמא יאמרו ב' יבמות הבאות משני בתים חדא מייבמא ואידך מיפטרא בולא כלום

is in doubt.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As to whether a levirate bond exists. Cf. supra p. 105, n. 9. ');">⁴</span> And should you reply that Biblically one of the widows may indeed be taken in levirate marriage and the other is thereby exempt, but that this procedure had Rabbinically been forbidden as a preventive measure against the possibility of the assumption that where two sisters-in-law came from two houses<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where two brothers died simultaneously; when the one widow is as much tied to him as the other. ');">⁵</span> one may be taken in levirate marriage and the other is thereby exempt without any further ceremonial;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'with nothing'. ');">⁶</span>

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