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The Talmud answers that these enumerations come to exclude those additions of Rav and of Rav Asi. Rav added the rival wife of a woman suspected by her husband of adultery [sota], while Rav Asi added the rival wife of an aylonit. The Talmud asks: And according to the opinion of Rav and according to
The Talmud responds: If each maintains in accordance with the opinion of the other, then one enumeration of the Mishnah comes to exclude the rival wife of a wife who performed refusal. If the deceased brother had two wives, one of whom was a minor, and she refused the yavam, her rival wife is proh
And if Rav and Rav Asi do not each maintain in accordance with the opinion of the other, then one enumeration comes to exclude the opinion of the other, as they do not agree that the halakha stated by the other should be included in the Mishnah, and the other one comes to exclude one of the above
The Talmud asks: If so, according to the opinion of Rav and according to the opinion of Rav Asi, let the tanna teach these cases. Since in their opinions there are more than 15 women to whom the principle of the Mishnah applies, why weren’t they all stated by the tanna of the Mishnah? The Talmud ans
The Talmud elaborates: This is because they do not involve the case of a rival wife of a rival wife. With regard to the 15 women listed, the discussion of the Mishnah concerning rival wives and rival wives of rival wives is appropriate. However, the two cases cited by Rav and Rav Asi do not leave r