Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud for Yevamot 41:19

ורב מאי טעמא לא חשיב ליה מיחלפא ליה באשת אבי אביו

is permanent;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'it is definite to him'. ');"><sup>47</sup></span> that of the other is not.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The daughter of his mother-in-law is permitted to him after the death of her sister, his wife. ');"><sup>48</sup></span> Rab said: Four [categories of] women [forbidden in the second degree] are subject to a limitation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'break' i.e., only they themselves are forbidden but not their descendants or ancestors in the descending or ascending line. In the case of the other relatives in the second degree of incest the prohibition extends throughout all generations in the ascending. and descending lines. ');"><sup>49</sup></span>

Jerusalem Talmud Yevamot

How can one prove secondary prohibitions? Rebbi Ḥuna said: “These86Lev. 18:27, כִּי אֶת־כָּל־הַתּוֹעֵבוֹת הָאֵל “all these abominations”, these should have been written הָאֵלֶּה; the short form is taken as a hint of the root אל “power” (the meaning of the word commonly but wrongly translated as “God”).”, the strong ones. This implies that there are weaker ones87In the Babli, 21a, the argument is in the name of Rava.. The following are the secondary prohibitions88Babli 21a, Tosephta 3:1 (parallels the Babli in content and the Yerushalmi in language), Derekh Ereṣ Rabba 1, extended to contain most of the next paragraph.: His paternal grandmother and his maternal grandmother, his paternal grandfather’s wife and his maternal grandfathers wife, his grandson’s wife whether from son or daughter, the wife of his mother’s brother and the wife of his father’s maternal brother.
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