Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 3 Mishnah 2
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יבמות פרק ג׳ משנה ב׳
If one of the sisters was forbidden to one of the brothers due to a prohibition against forbidden relations because she was a relative of his wife or a relative on his mother’s side, then he is forbidden to marry her but permitted to marry her sister. Because she is his close relative, she is exempt from levirate marriage with him, and therefore she is not bound to him with a levirate bond. Consequently, her sister is not considered the sister of a woman with whom he has a levirate bond, and he is permitted to enter into levirate marriage with her. But the second brother, who is not a close relative of either sister, is forbidden to marry both of them. Indeed, for him each woman remains the sister of a woman with whom he has a levirate bond. If a prohibition resulting from a mitzva or a prohibition stemming from sanctity will be transgressed when one of the women marries one of the brothers, then her sister must perform ḥalitza and may not enter into levirate marriage, as she is considered the sister of a woman with whom he has a levirate bond. In this case, the sister who is forbidden to the brother due to a mitzva or due to sanctity is bound to the brother for the purpose of ḥalitza.
הָיְתָה אַחַת מֵהֶן אֲסוּרָה עַל הָאֶחָד אִסּוּר עֶרְוָה, אָסוּר בָּהּ וּמֻתָּר בַּאֲחוֹתָהּ, וְהַשֵּׁנִי אָסוּר בִּשְׁתֵּיהֶן אִסּוּר מִצְוָה וְאִסּוּר קְדֻשָּׁה, חוֹלֶצֶת וְלֹא מִתְיַבֶּמֶת:
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איסור ערוה. כגון חמותו ואם חמותו:
ומותר באחותה. דלאו אחות זקוקתו היא, דערוה לא רמיא קמיה ליבומי:
איסור מצוה. רמיא קמיה מדאורייתא, הילכך אסור באחותה, דאחות זקוקתו היא:
איסור ערוה – such as, for example, his mother-in-law and the mother of his mother-in-law.
ומותר באחותה – for she is not the sister of his levirate relation for a woman forbidden to a man on account of consanguinity is not lying before him for levirate marriage.
איסור מצוה – lying before him from the Torah, therefore, he is forbidden to her sister, for she is the sister of his levirate relation.