Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 2 Mishnah 4
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יבמות פרק ב׳ משנה ד׳
The mishna explains: A prohibition resulting from a mitzva is referring to secondary forbidden relationships, which are prohibited by rabbinic law. The Sages prohibited marriage to certain women who were not forbidden by the Torah but were nevertheless deemed forbidden incestuous relations. A prohibition stemming from sanctity is referring to marriage of a widow to a High Priest, a divorcée or a woman who has performed ḥalitza [ḥalutza] to a common priest, a daughter born from an incestuous or adulterous relationship [mamzeret] or a Gibeonite woman to an Israelite, and also an Israelite woman to a Gibeonite or to a son born from an incestuous or adulterous relationship [mamzer].
אִסּוּר מִצְוָה, שְׁנִיּוֹת מִדִּבְרֵי סוֹפְרִים. אִסּוּר קְדֻשָּׁה, אַלְמָנָה לְכֹהֵן גָּדוֹל, גְּרוּשָׁה וַחֲלוּצָה לְכֹהֵן הֶדְיוֹט, מַמְזֶרֶת וּנְתִינָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, וּבַת יִשְׂרָאֵל לְנָתִין וּמַמְזֵר:
Bartenura
שניות. לעריות. שגזרו סופרים עליהם. ונקראו איסור מצוה, שמצוה לשמוע דברי חכמים. ואלו הן, אם אמו ואין לה הפסק, ואם אבי אמו בלבד, ואם אביו ואין לה הפסק, [ואם אבי אביו], ואשת אבי אביו ואין לה הפסק, ואשת אבי אמו בלבד, ואשת אחי האב מן האם, ואשת אחי האם בין מן האם בין מן האב, וכלת בנו ואין לה הפסק, וכלת בתו, ובת בת בנו, ובת בת בתו, ובת בן בנו, ובת בן בתו, ובת בת בן אשתו, ובת בת בת אשתו, ואם אם אבי אשתו, ואם אם אם אשתו, ואם אב אם אשתו, ואם אב אבי אשתו:
אלמנה לכהן גדול. שמת אחיו ההדיוט ונפלה אשתו לפניו:
גרושה וחלוצה לכהן הדיוט. כגון שעבר אחיו המת ונשא גרושה וחלוצה, וכשמת צריכה חליצה, שהרי תפסו לו בה קדושין משום דקדושין תופסין בחייבי לאוין. אבל יבומי לא, שהרי היא אסורה לו. ולפטרה בלא כלום אי אפשר, דלא אלים לאו למפטרה, דילפינן לה מאחות אשה שהיא בכרת:
שניות – [secondary grade of forbidden relationships seen as incestuous] – forbidden incestuous or adulterous sexual relationships that the Scribes/Soferim decreed upon them which are called prohibitions resulting from a Mitzvah (i.e., based upon the Mitzvah not to deviate from the rulings of the Sages – see Deuteronomy 17:11), for it is a Mitzvah to hearken to the words of the Sages, and which are they? The mother of his mother, and there is no limitation but if it is the father of his mother alone, and the mother of his father, and it has no limitation [and if the father of his father] and the wife of his father’s father, and it has no limitation, and the wife of his mother’s father alone, and the wife of his brother’s father from the mother, and the wife of his mother’s brother, whether from the mother or whether from the father and there is no limitation, and daughter-in-law of his daughter, and the daughter of his son’s daughter and the daughter of the daughter’s daughter and the daughter of’s his son’s son and the daughter of his son’s daughter, and the daughter [of the daughter] of the son of his wife, and the daughter [of the daughter] of his wife’s daughter, and the mother of the mother of his father’s wife, and the mother of [the mother] of his wife’s mother, and the father of the mother of his wife’s mother, and the mother of the father of his father’s wife.
גרושה וחלוצה לכהן הדיוט – such as, for example, that he (i.e., as a Kohen) transgressed his dead brother and had married a divorcee or a woman who had undergone Halitzah, and when he died, she needs Halitzah for Kiddushin/betrothal takes effect in those liable for violating negative commandments, but not levirate marriage, for she is prohibited to him, but to exempt/free her without anything is impossible, for it is not strong to release her, for we derive “her” from the wife’s sister, which is punishable by extirpation.