Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 4 Mishnah 7
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One who performs ḥalitza with his yevama is like any one of the other brothers with respect to the inheritance of the deceased brother’s estate, i.e., each of the brothers takes an equal share of the inheritance. And if there is a father of the deceased, who is still alive, the property of the deceased belongs to the father. One who consummates levirate marriage with his yevama thereby acquires his deceased brother’s property solely for himself. Rabbi Yehuda says: In either case, whether he consummated the levirate marriage or performed ḥalitza, if there is a father who is still alive, the property belongs to the father. In the case of one who performs ḥalitza with his yevama, by rabbinic decree it is as though she had been married to him and then he divorced her. Consequently, he is forbidden to engage in relations with her relatives and she is forbidden to engage in relations with his relatives. Accordingly, he is forbidden to engage in relations with her mother, and with her mother’s mother, and with her father’s mother, and with her daughter, and with her daughter’s daughter, and with her son’s daughter, and with her sister while his yevama is still alive. However, the other brothers who did not perform ḥalitza are permitted to her relatives. And she is forbidden to engage in relations with his father, and with his father’s father, and with his son, and with his son’s son, and with his brother, and with his brother’s son. The mishna states an additional principle: A man is permitted to engage in relations with a relative of a rival wife of his ḥalutza, i.e., his yevama with whom he performed ḥalitza. Since he did not perform ḥalitza with her, she is not regarded as though she had actually been married to him. However, he is forbidden to engage in relations with a rival wife of a relative of his ḥalutza, i.e., in addition to being forbidden to the relatives of his ḥalutza, he is also forbidden to their rival wives.
הַחוֹלֵץ לִיבִמְתּוֹ, הֲרֵי הוּא כְאֶחָד מִן הָאַחִין לַנַּחֲלָה. וְאִם יֶשׁ שָׁם אָב, נְכָסִים שֶׁל אָב. הַכּוֹנֵס אֶת יְבִמְתּוֹ, זָכָה בַנְּכָסִים שֶׁל אָחִיו. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, בֵּין כָּךְ וּבֵין כָּךְ, אִם יֶשׁ שָׁם אָב, נְכָסִים שֶׁל אָב. הַחוֹלֵץ לִיבִמְתּוֹ, הוּא אָסוּר בִּקְרוֹבוֹתֶיהָ, וְהִיא אֲסוּרָה בִקְרוֹבָיו. הוּא אָסוּר בְּאִמָּהּ, וּבְאֵם אִמָּהּ, וּבְאֵם אָבִיהָ, וּבְבִתָּהּ, וּבְבַת בִּתָּהּ, וּבְבַת בְּנָהּ, וּבַאֲחוֹתָהּ בִּזְמַן שֶׁהִיא קַיֶּמֶת. וְהָאַחִין מֻתָּרִין. וְהִיא אֲסוּרָה בְאָבִיו, וּבַאֲבִי אָבִיו, וּבִבְנוֹ, וּבְבֶן בְּנוֹ, בְּאָחִיו, וּבְבֶן אָחִיו. מֻתָּר אָדָם בִּקְרוֹבַת צָרַת חֲלוּצָתוֹ, וְאָסוּר בְּצָרַת קְרוֹבַת חֲלוּצָתוֹ:
Bartenura
הרי הוא כאחד מן האחין. ולא הפסיד חלקו בשביל שחלץ. דסלקא דעתך אמינא לקנסיה הואיל והפסידה מיבום שפסלה על האחים:
זכה בנכסי אחיו. ואפילו גרשה למחר, דיקום על שם אחיו אמר רחמנא, והרי קם:
נכסים של אב. דכתיב והיה הבכור, מה בכור אין לו בחיי האב, אף יבם אין לו בחיי האב. ואין כן הלכה, אלא הכונס את יבמתו זכה בנכסי אחיו ואפילו במקום אב:
אסור בקרובותיה. כאילו היא אשתו, וכל קרובות הנאסרות מחמת אשה גמורה אסורות מדרבנן בחלוצה:
בזמן. שהיא קיימת. אאחותה קאי ולא אשאר עריות:
מותר אדם בקרובת צרת חלוצתו. ולא אמרינן צרה כחלוצה שיהא אסור באחות צרת חלוצתו כמו שהוא אסור באחות חלוצתו:
ואסור בצרת קרובת חלוצתו. ראובן חלץ ללאה, ורחל נשואה לנכרי ולה צרה, ומת הנכרי, אסורה אותה צרה לראובן. וטעמא הוי, שבזמן שלאה חולצת מוליכה רחל אחותה עמה לב״ד, וכולי עלמא לא ידעי להי מינייהו חליץ, ואיכא דסברי דלרחל חליץ, וכי נסיב צרת רחל דהיינו צרת קרובת חלוצתו אמרי צרת חלוצתו נסיב, דאינהו סברי שרחל וצרתה נשי אחיו היו, שהרי חלץ לרחל. אבל אין היבמה מוליכה צרתה עמה בזמן שחולצת, הלכך כי נסיב אחות הצרה לא אמרי אחות חלוצה נסיב:
הרי הוא כחד מן האחין – and he did not lose his portion because he performed Halitzah for you might think that I would say that he would be fined for since he caused her to lose from [having] levirate marriage for she was disqualified on [his] brothers.
זכה בנכסי אחיו – and even if he would divorced her on the morrow, for the All-Merciful one stated (Deuteronomy 25:6): “[The first son that she bears] shall be accounted to the [dead] brother,” and he has stood up [and performed his duty].
נכסים של אב – as it is written (Deuteronomy 25:6): “The first son [that she bears shall be accounted to the dead brother],” just he doesn’t have a first-born son during the life of the father, even the levir doesn’t have it during the lifetime of the father, and such is the Halakha but rather, a man who marries his sister-in-law takes possession of the property of his brother, and even in the place of the father.
אסור בקרובותיה – as if she is his wife and all of the female relations that are forbidden [to him] on account of the woman is completely his wife, are forbidden for Halitzah according to the Rabbis.
בזמן שהיא קיימת – it refers to her sister, and not to the rest of the women forbidden on account of consanguinity.
מותר אדם בקרובת צרת חלוצתו – and we don’t say that the rival/co-wife is like the woman who has undergone Halitzah, that he would be forbidden with the sister of the rival/co-wife of the woman with whom he performed Halitzah, like he is prohibited [to be] with the sister of the woman with whom he performed Halitzah.
ואסור בצרת קרובת חלוצתו – Reuven who performed Halitzah with Leah and Rachel is married to a foreign (i.e. unrelated Jewish) man, and she has a rival/co-wife, and the foreign (i.e., unrelated Jewish) man died, that rival/co-wife is prohibited to Reuven. And the reason for this is at the time when Leah had the Halitzah ceremony performed, she brought Rachel her sister with her to the Jewish court, and the entire world doesn’t know to which of them had Halitzah and there are those who think that to Rachel was peformed Halitzah, and when the rival/co-wife of Rachel gets married, that is the rival/co-wife of the the relative of his Halitzah, they say that the rival/co-wife of his Halitzah married, and they think that Rachl and her rival/co-wife were the wives of his brother, because he did Halitzah to Rachel. But, the sister-in-law does not bring her rival/co-wife with her at the time that she has the Halitzah ceremony performed, therefore, when the sister of her rival/co-wife gets married, we don’t say that it the sister of the woman who had Halitzah that married.