Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 59:13

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> טעמא דגירש ואחר כך מת אבל מת ואחר כך גירש אסורה אמר רב אשי זאת אומרת יש זיקה אפילו בתרי אחי

but [if the other]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first husband of the stranger. ');">⁵¹</span> had died [first] and he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The brother who divorced his wife. ');">⁵⁰</span> divorced [his wife] afterwards,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which case the stranger came for a certain period under the levirate bond in respect of the husbands of the two sisters. ');">⁵³</span> she<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The stranger. ');">⁵⁴</span> is forbidden.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To marry the last surviving brother. Since she was, for a period at least, the rival of one of the sisters, through the levirate bond, she may never be married to the husband of that sister's sister (being forbidden to him as the rival of his wife's sister) even if the sister whose rival she was had been subsequently divorced and ceased to be her rival. ');">⁵⁵</span>

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