Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud for Yevamot 41:4

אמר רבא רמז לשניות מן התורה מנין שנאמר (ויקרא יח, כז) כי את כל התועבות האל עשו אנשי הארץ האל קשות מכלל דאיכא רכות ומאי נינהו שניות

-Resh Lakish can answer you: I said it only in the case where the precept is fulfilled; here, however, <i>halizah</i> as a substitute for the levirate marriage is not a fulfilment of the precept.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is only a ritual to be observed where levirate marriage cannot take place. The precept of levirate marriage, however, is not thereby fulfilled. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> Raba said: Where in the Torah may an allusion be found to [the prohibition of] relations in the second degree?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'whence an allusion to seconds from the Torah'. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> It is said, For all these abominations have the men of the land done;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XVIII, 27, dealing with incest. ');"><sup>11</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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