Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 10 Mishnah 6
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The mishna addresses a different issue: If a boy aged nine years and one day had relations with his yevama he thereby disqualifies his brothers from levirate marriage, despite the fact that as a minor he has not acquired the yevama through this act of intercourse, and the brothers likewise disqualify the woman from him if they have intercourse with the yevama. However, there is a difference between them, as he disqualifies them only if he engaged in relations with her first, and the brothers disqualify him whether they had relations first or last. The mishna explains: How so? A boy aged nine years and one day who had relations with his yevama has disqualified his brothers, as they are no longer eligible to marry her. If his brothers had relations with her, or performed levirate betrothal with her, or gave her a bill of divorce, or performed ḥalitza with her, they permanently disqualify him from engaging in relations with her.
בֶּן תֵּשַׁע שָׁנִים וְיוֹם אֶחָד, הוּא פוֹסֵל עַל יְדֵי אַחִין, וְהָאַחִים פּוֹסְלִין עַל יָדוֹ, אֶלָּא שֶׁהוּא פוֹסֵל תְּחִלָּה, וְהָאַחִין פּוֹסְלִין תְּחִלָּה וָסוֹף. כֵּיצַד, בֶּן תֵּשַׁע שָׁנִים וְיוֹם אֶחָד שֶׁבָּא עַל יְבִמְתּוֹ, פָּסַל עַל יְדֵי אַחִין. בָּאוּ עָלֶיהָ אַחִין, וְעָשׂוּ בָהּ מַאֲמָר, נָתְנוּ גֵט אוֹ חָלְצוּ, פָּסְלוּ עַל יָדוֹ:
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בן תשע שנים ויום אחד פוסל. את היבמה לאחין אם בא עליה, דביאתו ביאה. או אם נתן גט או עשה בה מאמר, שיש לו גט ויש לו מאמר, אבל אינו גט גמור ולא מאמר גמור:
אלא שהוא פוסל תחלה. בגמרא מפרש דבמאמר הוא פוסל תחלה ולא בסוף, שאם אחיו הגדול עשה מאמר ואח״כ עשה מאמר זה שהוא בן תשע שנים ויום אחד לא פסלה מאחיו, אבל בביאה פוסל בן תשע שנים ויום אחד בין בתחלה בין בסוף. ומתניתין חסורי מחסרא והכי קתני, אלא הוא פוסל תחלה והן פוסלין תחלה וסוף. במה דברים אמורים, במאמר, אבל ביאה אפילו בסוף נמי פסיל, כיצד, בן תשע שנים ויום אחד הבא על יבמתו וכו׳:
בן ט' שנים ויום אחד פוסל – [a child nine years and one-day old invalidates] the deceased childless brother’s widow to the brothers if he had come upon her, for his act of sexual coition is [a valid] coition. Or, if he gave a Jewish bill of divorce or made a betrothal of a dead brother’s wife by statement with money or a document for he has a Jewish bill of divorce and a betrothal by statement of a dead brother’s wife, but it is not a complete Jewish bill of divorce, nor a complete betrothal by statement.
אלא הוא פוסל תחלה – In the Gemara (Tractate Yevamot 96a) it explains that with betrothal of a dead brother’s wife by statement, he disqualifies at the outset, but not at the conclusion, but if his older brother had made the statement of betrothal [to the dead brother’s childless widow] and [he] afterwards made the statement of betrothal, that which the nine-year and one-day old [did] did not invalidates her from his brothers, but through his act of coition, the nine-year and one-day old invalidates whether at the outset or at the conclusion, and our Mishnah is deficient and should be read as follows: but rather he invalidates at the outset and they invalidate at the outset and at the conclusion. When is this said? Through betrothal by statement, but an act of coition even at the end also invalidates. How so? A child who is nine years and one day old who came upon his dead brother’s childless widow, etc.