Yevamot 3

Chapter 3

א מתני׳ <big><strong>חמש</strong></big> עשרה נשים פוטרות צרותיהן וצרות צרותיהן מן החליצה ומן היבום עד סוף העולם
1 <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. FIFTEEN [CATEGORIES OF] WOMEN EXEMPT THEIR RIVALS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Heb., zarah, [H] 'rival'. Where a husband has more than one wife, each woman is a zarah in relation to the other. The term is derived from [H] which signifies oppression, hence 'rival', 'adversary', as in I Sam. I, 6 (cf. Kimhi a.l.), or 'to tie up', 'to bind', hence 'associate', 'co-wife'. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> AND THE RIVALS OF THEIR RIVALS<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The co-wives of a rival through a second marriage. ');"><sup>2</sup></span> AND SO ON, AD INFINITUM,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] lit., 'to the end of the world'. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
ב ואלו הן בתו ובת בתו ובת בנו בת אשתו
2 FROM THE <i>HALIZAH</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] (rt. [H] 'to take off' or 'to loosen'), the ceremony of drawing off the shoe of the brother of her husband who died without issue. According to Biblical law (v. Deut. XXV, 5-9) the brother-in-law must either marry the widow (v. following note) or be subjected to halizah. ');"><sup>4</sup></span> AND FROM THE LEVIRATE MARRIAGE;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] 'to marry the levir'. Any woman coming under the fifteen categories enumerated below is not only herself exempt from halizah and yibbum but exempts also her own rivals as well as the rivals of her rivals, ad infinitum, as explained anon. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> AND THESE ARE THEY: HIS DAUGHTER,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who had been married to his brother who subsequently died childless. Since he is forbidden to marry his daughter he is thereby also forbidden to marry any of her rivals, the widows of his deceased childless brother. 'HIS DAUGHTER' includes even one born to him as a result of outrage, v. infra. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
ג ובת בנה ובת בתה חמותו ואם חמותו ואם חמיו
3 THE DAUGHTER OF HIS DAUGHTER<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. previous note. All the fifteen categories enumerated are among the near relatives whom a man is forbidden to marry in accordance with the explicit and implicit prohibitions in Lev. XVIII, 6ff. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> AND THE DAUGHTER OF HIS SON;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. previous note. All the fifteen categories enumerated are among the near relatives whom a man is forbidden to marry in accordance with the explicit and implicit prohibitions in Lev. XVIII, 6ff. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> THE DAUGHTER OF HIS WIFE,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From a former husband. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
ד אחותו מאמו ואחות אמו ואחות אשתו ואשת אחיו מאמו
4 THE DAUGHTER OF HER SON AND THE DAUGHTER OF HER DAUGHTER; HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who, after the death of her husband, had married his brother who subsequently died childless. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW'S MOTHER,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The prohibition to marry in this case is derived in Sanhedrin 75a from Lev. XVIII, 17. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> AND HIS FATHER-IN-LAW'S MOTHER;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The prohibition to marry in this case is derived in Sanhedrin 75a from Lev. XVIII, 17. ');"><sup>10</sup></span> HIS MATERNAL SISTER,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who was married to his paternal brother. The laws of the levirate marriage and halizah are applicable to a paternal, but not to a maternal brother. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> HIS MOTHER'S SISTER,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who was married to his paternal brother. The laws of the levirate marriage and halizah are applicable to a paternal, but not to a maternal brother. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> HIS WIFE'S SISTER AND HIS MATERNAL BROTHER'S WIFE;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who, after the death of her husband, had married his paternal brother. ');"><sup>12</sup></span>
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