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Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 14 Mishnah 4

יבמות פרק י"ד משנה ד׳

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However, if two brothers, one of whom is a deaf-mute and other one halakhically competent, were married to two halakhically competent sisters, and the deaf-mute married to the halakhically competent sister died, what should the halakhically competent brother married to the halakhically competent sister do? His brother’s wife is released without levirate marriage or ḥalitza, due to the prohibition with regard to a wife’s sister. If the halakhically competent brother married to the halakhically competent sister died, what should the deaf-mute brother married to the halakhically competent sister do? He divorces his wife with a bill of divorce, as his wife’s sister came before him for levirate marriage by Torah law, and the legal status of her marriage and her levirate marriage is higher than his own marriage, which applies only by rabbinic law. And his brother’s wife is forbidden to him forever, and there is no remedy for her. He cannot marry her, as by rabbinic law she is the sister of his ex-wife, nor can he exempt her by means of ḥalitza, as he is a deaf-mute.

שְׁנֵי אַחִים, אֶחָד חֵרֵשׁ וְאֶחָד פִּקֵּחַ, נְשׂוּאִים לִשְׁתֵּי אֲחָיוֹת פִּקְחוֹת, מֵת חֵרֵשׁ בַּעַל הַפִּקַּחַת, מַה יַּעֲשֶׂה פִקֵּחַ בַּעַל הַפִּקַּחַת, תֵּצֵא מִשּׁוּם אֲחוֹת אִשָּׁה. מֵת פִּקֵּחַ בַּעַל הַפִּקַּחַת, מַה יַּעֲשֶׂה חֵרֵשׁ בַּעַל פִּקַּחַת, מוֹצִיא אִשְׁתּוֹ בְגֵט, וְאֵשֶׁת אָחִיו אֲסוּרָה לְעוֹלָם.

ד׳
Bartenura

מוציא את אשתו בגט – for the levirate relationship of his sister that comes on account of complete betrothal/Kiddshin prohibits her to him, for there is no power in his betrothal to push away the widow of the brother who died without children because of [the prohibition of] the his wife’s sister.

ואשת אחיו אסורה לעולם – for a deaf-mute does not have his show removed and to marry is impossible because of [the prohibition of] his wife’s sister.

מוציא את אשתו בגט. דזיקת אחותה הבא מכח קדושין גמורים אוסרתה עליו, ואין כח בקדושין דידיה לדחות היבמה משום אחות אשתו:

ואשת אחיו אסורה לעולם. דחרש לא חליץ. ולכנוס אי אפשר משום אחות אשה: