Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 9:4

איכא למיפרך מה ללאו דהקפה שכן לאו שאין שוה בכל

applies to] a leper also, hence it was explicitly stated, his head;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Indicating that, despite the general prohibition, it is the leper's duty to round his head. ');">⁹</span> and this Tanna is of the opinion that rounding all the head is also regarded as 'rounding'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though the text speaks of rounding the corners. Such a rounding then, though generally forbidden, is in the case of a leper, permitted, because Scripture explicitly stated 'shave all the hair of his head' (Lev. XIV, 9). Thus it has been proved that the positive precept of the shaving of the leper supersedes the prohibition of rounding off one's head. Similarly, in the case of the levirate marriage, it might have been assumed that the positive precept of marrying the deceased brother's widow supersedes the prohibition of marrying a wife's sister; hence the necessity for a special text (v. supra 3b end and p. 10, n. 7) to prove that it does not. ');">¹⁰</span> This [conclusion, however,] may be refuted: The reason why the prohibition of<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what as to the negative (command)'. ');">¹¹</span>

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