Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 73:4

אבל הכא כמאן נעביד אי כר' מאיר הא אמר יוציא ולא יחזיר עולמית ואי כרבנן האמרי בגט

since the Rabbis differ from R. Simeon b. Gamaliel in maintaining that the child is deemed to be sound even though he did not live long enough,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The full thirty days. ');">¹¹</span> we may, in the case of a priest's wife, where no other course is open,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since a priest is forbidden to marry a divorced woman. ');">¹²</span> act in accordance with the view of the Rabbis.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In regarding the child as viable and thus exempting the mother from the levirate marriage and halizah. ');">¹³</span>

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