Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 71:4

טעמא דשמא יהא ולד בן קיימא הוא הא לא הוי ולד בן קיימא מיפטר צרתה לימא תיהוי תיובתא דר"ל

Said R. Eleazar: Is it possible that there should exist [such a ruling as] that of Resh Lakish and that we should not have learnt it in a Mishnah? When he went out he carefully considered the matter and found one. For we learned: If people came to a woman whose husband and rival had gone to a country beyond the sea and told her, 'Your husband is dead',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And has left no issue. ');">⁹</span> she may neither be married<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To a stranger. ');">¹⁰</span> nor be taken in levirate marriage<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By the levir. ');">¹¹</span>

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