Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 59:2

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> טעמא דעבד בה מאמר הא לא עבד בה מאמר נכרית יבומי נמי מייבמה אמר רב נחמן זאת אומרת אין זיקה ואפילו בחד אחא:

<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. The reason<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why the stranger is not to be taken in levirate marriage. ');">⁵</span> is because he had addressed to her<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first widow. ');">³</span> a ma'amar;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since our Mishnah makes the stranger's exemption dependent on the ma'amar, whereby she became the first widow's rival. ');">⁶</span> had he, however, not addressed a ma'amar to her,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first widow. ');">³</span> the stranger also would have had to be taken in levirate marriage.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Despite the fact that the first widow is also subjected to the levir for the levirate marriage. ');">⁷</span>

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