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R' Shimon says: sex or ḥalitza with one of them, i.e., the wife of the second brother, exempts her rival wife, but if he performed ḥalitza with the one who received the levirate betrothal, then her rival wife, i.e., the wife of the second brother, is not thereby exempt, since possibly levirate bet
The baraita continues: If he married his yevama and then a brother was born, and then he died, both the wife of the first deceased brother and the original wife of the yavam are exempt from ḥalitza and levirate marriage; this is the statement of R' Meir. And R' Shimon says: Since the third brother
The Talmud clarifies: The section of the latter clause of the baraita, which refers to the case of a brother born after the levirate marriage, according to whom is it taught? If we say it is taught for the purpose of clarifying the opinion of R' Meir, it does not make sense, since it makes no diffe
Rather, is it not that the latter segment was meant to clarify the opinion of R' Shimon, since the different parts of the baraita enumerate different possibilities? And R' Shimon disagrees in the case when the brother first performed levirate marriage and afterward his brother was born, but he doe
§ The Talmud proceeds to discuss the baraita itself. The Master said: The second was about to perform levirate betrothal with his yevama, but did not manage to perform levirate betrothal with his yevama before his brother was born, and then the second brother died. The first woman goes out and is fr