Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 80:8

וליתני אם אם אמה וליתני האחין מותרין בכולן קשיא

[No.] It is possible that the reason why this relative was omitted<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'that he did not teach'. ');">¹¹</span> is because it was desired to state in the final clause, THE OTHER BROTHERS, HOWEVER, ARE PERMITTED, and, were 'her mother's mother's mother' also mentioned it might have been presumed that the brothers are permitted [to marry] her mother's mother's mother only<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because even in the case of one's wife she is not Biblically forbidden. ');">¹²</span>

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