Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 47:11

השתא דאמרת קרא בגדול כתיב אימא בכור לייבם פשוט לא לייבם

has come and entirely deprived the text of its ordinary meaning.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that despite the ordinary meaning of the text, the child born from the levirate union need not be named after the deceased. ');">²⁵</span> But apart from the <i>gezerah shawah</i>, would it have been thought that 'name' actually signifies 'a name'? To whom, then, does the All Merciful address the instruction!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' About the name. ');">²⁶</span> If to the levir, the wording should have been. 'shall succeed in the name of thy brother'; if to the <i>Beth din</i>, the wording should have been, 'shall succeed in the name of his father's brother'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Consequently. name in this text could not possibly have borne its ordinary meaning, but must have that given to it in the exposition supra. viz., that Beth din are instructed to hand over the inheritance Of the deceased to the levir who married his widow. An objection against Raba! ');">²⁷</span>

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