Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 224:13

שני אחין אחד חרש ואחד פקח נשואין לשתי אחיות אחת חרשת ואחת פקחת מת חרש בעל חרשת מה יעשה פקח בעל פקחת תצא משום אחות אשה

ALSO IS IN A SIMILAR POSITION.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Git. 55a. ');">²¹</span> IF TWO DEAF BROTHERS WERE MARRIED TO TWO DEAF SISTERS, OR TO TWO SISTERS WHO WERE OF SOUND SENSES, OR TO TWO SISTERS ONE OF WHOM WAS DEAF AND THE OTHER WAS OF SOUND SENSES; AND SO ALSO IF TWO DEAF SISTERS WERE MARRIED TO TWO BROTHERS WHO WERE OF SOUND SENSES, OR TO TWO DEAF BROTHERS, OR TO TWO BROTHERS ONE OF WHOM WAS DEAF AND THE OTHER OF SOUND SENSES, BEHOLD THESE [WOMEN] ARE EXEMPT FROM <i>HALIZAH</i> AND FROM LEVIRATE MARRIAGE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the marriages of both sisters are of equal invalidity in Pentateuchal, and of equal validity in Rabbinic law, their levirate obligations and degree of relationship are also on the same legal level. Each sister, therefore, exempts the other, as in the case of marriages between normal brothers and sisters, from both the levirate marriage and halizah. ');">²²</span>

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