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The Mishnah explains: A prohibition resulting from a mitzva is referring to secondary forbidden relatives, e.g., one’s son’s daughter-in-law, who are forbidden by rabbinic law. The rabbis instituted this prohibition in order to distance people from incest. The Talmud explains: And why do the rabbi
The Mishnah continues: A prohibition stemming from sanctity is referring to the marriage of a widow to a High Priest, or to the marriage of a divorcée or of a woman who has performed ḥalitza [ḥalutza], to an ordinary priest. The Talmud explains: And why do the rabbis call it a prohibition stemming
And it is taught in a baraita with regard to this Mishnah: R' Yehuda switches the terms; he refers to the marriage of a divorcée or of a ḥalutza to a priest as a prohibition resulting from a mitzva, and to the marriage of secondary relatives as a prohibition stemming from sanctity.
The Talmud infers: He switches the terms but does not dispute the halakha; but even R' Yehuda agrees that if a priest marries a ḥalutza and then dies, she requires ḥalitza. And if it enters your mind that R' Yehuda holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, this poses a difficulty; after all
The Talmud resolves the difficulty: R' Yehuda does hold in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, and as for his comment with regard to the definitions of a prohibition resulting from a mitzva and a prohibition stemming from sanctity, he merely stated his opinion in accordance with the statement o