Study Yevamot folio 42B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
therefore, one should be concerned that perhaps she will become pregnant and her milk will dry up during pregnancy, and the lack of milk will kill her newborn child. The Talmud asks: If so, even if his wife is pregnant with his own child, the same concern applies. The Talmud explains: For his own ch
§ The Mishnah states: The requirement to wait 3 months before remarrying applies both to virgins and non-virgins, both to divorcées and to widows, and both to women who were married to their previous husbands and to women who were only betrothed. The Talmud asks: Which women are referred to as virg
R' Yehuda said this is what the Mishnah is saying: The requirement to wait applies to both virgins and non-virgins who were widowed or divorced, whether from betrothal or from marriage, i.e., the Mishnah does not list different categories of women but instead establishes a general principle.
The Talmud relates: R' Elazar did not enter the study hall one day. He found R' Asi and said to him: What was said by the rabbis in the study hall today? He said to him: This is what R' Yoḥanan said: The halakha is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei that a woman is permitted to be betrothed
R' Elazar said: From the fact that R' Yoḥanan needed to state this, it would seem that there is an individual opinion that disagrees with him, even though no such opinion is mentioned in the Mishnah. R' Asi answered: Yes, that is correct, and so it is taught in a baraita in the Tosefta (Yevamot 6: