Study Yevamot folio 40B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Accordingly, he is forbidden to engage in sex with her mother, and with her mother’s mother, and with her father’s mother, and with her daughter, and with her daughter’s daughter, and with her son’s daughter, and with her sister while his yevama is still alive. However, the other brothers who did n
And she is forbidden to engage in sex with his father, and with his father’s father, and with his son, and with his son’s son, and with his brother, and with his brother’s son.
The Mishnah states an additional principle: A man is permitted to engage in sex with a relative of a rival wife of his ḥalutza, i.e., his yevama with whom he performed ḥalitza. Since he did not perform ḥalitza with her, she is not regarded as though she had actually been married to him. However, he
Talmud: A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: In addition to the Torah prohibition against engaging in sex with one’s wife’s close relatives, the rabbis decreed that it is also prohibited to engage in sex with one’s wife’s secondary relatives, i.e., those who are less closely related and so are p
The Talmud presents the sides of the dilemma: Did the rabbis decree that the prohibition of secondary forbidden relationships applies only in a case where there is a relative with whom sex are forbidden by Torah law, but in the case of a ḥalutza, whose relatives are forbidden only by rabbinic decre