Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 59:6

ואיידי דחביבה ליה אקדמה ומשנה לא זזה ממקומה:

while the other<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mishnah, which is now the first. ');">²²</span> was regarded by him as a permissible case, and so he permitted her.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' l.e., allowed the stranger to be taken in levirate marriage by the surviving brother, because the prohibition that arose from her husband's 'wife's sister' was imposed upon her later, after she had been lawfully married to her husband and after a period during which, had he died without issue, she would have been permitted to be taken in levirate marriage by his brother. It was not the Tanna's Intention, therefore, to include this case in a Mishnah at all. ');">²³</span> Later, however, he came to regard it as a case that was to be forbidden;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since her rival was, after all, the surviving brother's wife's sister. ');">²⁴</span> and, as it was dear to him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Owing to its novelty. ');">²⁵</span> he placed it first; while the other Mishnah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The second Mishnah. ');">²⁶</span>

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