Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 59:14

ולרב אשי קשיא דרב נחמן אמר לך רב אשי ה"ה דאף על גב דלא עבד בה מאמר נכרית מיחלץ חלצה יבומי לא מייבמה והא דקתני מאמר לאפוקי ב"ש דאמרי מאמר קונה

Said R. Ashi: This proves that a levirate bond exists,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Between the widow of a deceased childless brother and the levirs. ');">⁵⁶</span> even where two brothers are involved.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since, in the case under discussion, the widow whose husband died before one of the sisters had been divorced was subject to two levirs and is, nevertheless, regarded as the rival of the divorced sister, in consequence of which she is forbidden to the last surviving brother. ');">⁵⁷</span> But as to R. Ashi's [inference] does not that of R. Nahman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From a Mishnah supra, that no levirate bond exists even in the case of one brother. ');">⁵⁸</span> present a difficulty? — R. Ashi can answer you: The same law, that the stranger is to perform the <i>halizah</i> and that she is not to be taken in levirate marriage.is applicable<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Contrary to R. Nahman's inference. ');">⁵⁹</span> even to the case where no ma' amar had been addressed; and the only reason why ma'amar was at all mentioned<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In that Mishnah. ');">⁶⁰</span> was in order to exclude the ruling of Beth Shammai. Since they maintain that a ma'amar constitutes

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