Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 110:8

דסוטה למה לי לכדתניא שכבת זרע פרט לדבר אחר מאי דבר אחר אמר רב ששת פרט לשקינא לה שלא כדרכה א"ל רבא משכבי אשה כתיב

what, however, can be said, according to him who maintains [that for such an act one is] guilty? — <font>The exclusion is rather that of intercourse with a dead woman</font>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even though she died as a married woman. ');">²⁰</span> Since it might have been assumed that, as [a wife], even after her death, is described as <i>his kin</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Lev. XXI, 2, where the text enumerates the dead relatives for whom a priest may defile himself. As was explained, supra 22b, his kin refers to one's wife. ');">²¹</span> one should be guilty for [intercourse with] her [as for that] with a married woman, hence we were taught [that one is exonerated]. What was the object of that<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression 'carnally' in Num. V, 13. ');">²²</span>

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