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The first, is not mistaken, as what is the meaning of first? It means the first to fall before her yavam for levirate marriage. And he who taught referring to her as the second is not mistaken either, as what is the meaning of second? It means the second to enter marriage. Since the second decea
§ The Talmud turns from a review of the language used in the Mishnah to a discussion of the halakhot of a wife of a brother with whom one did not coexist. Where is it written that the mitzva of levirate marriage does not apply in the case of the wife of a brother with whom he did not coexist? Rav Ye
Rabba said: One learns the ruling that levirate marriage applies only to brothers from the same father by the verbal analogy between the term brotherhood used in the context of levirate marriage and the term brotherhood from the children of Jacob. Just as there, with regard to the children of Jacob
The Talmud raises an objection: Why should we learn from the children of Jacob? Let it derive the meaning of the term brotherhood by verbal analogy to the term brotherhood from the verses discussing those with whom sex are forbidden. In the halakhot of forbidden sex, both paternal and maternal half
The Talmud objects: What difference does it make if there is a minor difference between the words being compared? As the school of R' Yishmael taught a verbal analogy with regard to tzara'at of houses between the verse “and the priest shall return [veshav]” (Leviticus 14:39) and the verse “and the p