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to him, as his erroneous marriage to her sister is considered licentious sex, and one who has sex with his wife’s relatives has not rendered his first wife forbidden to himself. And he is permitted to the relatives of the second woman, e.g., her daughter, and this second woman is permitted to his r
If they said to him that his wife is dead, and he married her sister, and afterward they said to him that she was alive when he married the sister and only later died, in this case the first child, born to the sister while his wife was still alive, is a mamzer, as he was born from the union of a
Talmud: With regard to the case of a man who married his wife’s sister after he was informed that his wife was dead, the Talmud comments: And even if his wife and his brother-in-law both went overseas and he was told that they had died, the halakha is that this marriage he performed is effective on
It might have been thought that his own marriage, which caused this to be an act of forbidden sex, would also be adversely affected. But the Talmud adds that we do not say: Since his brother-in-law’s wife is forbidden to his brother-in-law, his wife is likewise forbidden to him. The Talmud suggests
As it is taught in a baraita: None of those with whom sex are forbidden by Torah law require a bill of divorce from him, even if he married them in a proper manner, apart from a married woman who married by mistake by permission of the court. And R' Akiva adds: Also a brother’s wife and a wife’s si