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We instruct the minor, i.e., the surviving brother’s wife, to refuse to continue to stay married to him so that her marriage is dissolved, and he may then enter into levirate marriage with her adult sister, the widow of his childless brother. And Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: The halakha is in
The Talmud adds: This too stands to reason, as we learned in a Mishnah in the order of Zera’im (Ḥalla 2:4) that R' Eliezer says: Even with regard to one who removes loaves of bread from an oven and places them in a basket, the basket serves to combine them to reach the quantity from which one is req
The Talmud raises a difficulty: The case of ḥalla was cited as proof that there is an exception to Shmuel’s principle that there are only 4 cases where the halakha is in accordance with the opinion of R' Eliezer, after a difficulty was raised from the case of levirate marriage with the sister of one
As we learned in the Mishnah (Yevamot 111b): A yavam may perform levirate marriage with only one of his deceased brother’s wives. Once he does so, the other wives are forbidden to him, because they had been married to his brother. If a deceased brother had two wives, an adult and a minor, and the ya
The Talmud asks: And does R' Elazar in fact hold in accordance with the opinion of R' Eliezer? But doesn’t the Talmud (Yevamot 111b) explain that both the opinions of R' Eliezer and R' Elazar are necessary, as they apply to different cases, and therefore they are not comparable to each other? The