Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 59:10

הא נמי תנינא שני אחין נשואים שתי אחיות מת אחד מהם ואח"כ מתה אשתו של שני הרי זו אסורה עליו עולמית הואיל ונאסרה עליו שעה אחת

should be permitted, hence, he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rah. ');">⁴¹</span> taught us [that It was not so]. But we have learned this also: If two brothers were married to two sisters, and one of the brothers died and afterwards the wife of the second brother died, behold, she<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The widow of the first brother. ');">⁴²</span> is forbidden to him for all time, since she was forbidden to him for one moment!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Infra 32a. ');">⁴³</span> — It might have been assumed [that this law is applicable] only there because she was completely forced out of that house;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When her husband died and she was not permitted to marry his only surviving brother whose wife's sister she was, her connection with her husband's family had been completely severed, she remaining free to marry any stranger. ');">⁴⁴</span>

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