Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 13 Mishnah 8
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If a man was married to two orphaned minors and died, consummation of levirate marriage or ḥalitza with one of them exempts her rival wife from either levirate marriage or ḥalitza, rendering her free to remarry. Likewise, if two deaf-mutes were married to one man who died, consummation of levirate marriage or ḥalitza with one of them exempts her rival wife. In both of these cases, both women are married by rabbinic law and consequently become yevamot by rabbinic law. Since their statuses are equal, one can exempt the other. If one wife is a minor and the other is a deaf-mute, consummation of levirate marriage or ḥalitza with one of them does not exempt her rival wife. Although both women are married by rabbinic law, their statuses are not the same and one cannot exempt the other. If one of them was halakhically competent and one was a deaf-mute, consummation of levirate marriage with the halakhically competent wife exempts the deaf-mute, as the halakhically competent women’s marriage and levirate marriage are by Torah law. But consummation of levirate marriage with the deaf-mute does not exempt the halakhically competent wife. Likewise, if one was an adult woman and one a minor girl, consummation of levirate marriage with the adult exempts the minor but consummation of levirate marriage with the minor does not exempt the adult.
מִי שֶׁהָיָה נָשׂוּי לִשְׁתֵּי יְתוֹמוֹת קְטַנּוֹת, וּמֵת, בִּיאָתָהּ אוֹ חֲלִיצָתָהּ שֶׁל אַחַת מֵהֶן פּוֹטֶרֶת צָרָתָהּ. וְכֵן שְׁתֵּי חֵרְשׁוֹת. קְטַנָּה וְחֵרֶשֶׁת, אֵין בִּיאַת אַחַת מֵהֶן פּוֹטֶרֶת צָרָתָהּ. פִּקַּחַת וְחֵרֶשֶׁת, בִּיאַת הַפִּקַּחַת פּוֹטֶרֶת אֶת הַחֵרֶשֶׁת, וְאֵין בִּיאַת הַחֵרֶשֶׁת פּוֹטֶרֶת אֶת הַפִּקַּחַת. גְּדוֹלָה וּקְטַנָּה, בִּיאַת הַגְּדוֹלָה פוֹטֶרֶת אֶת הַקְּטַנָּה, וְאֵין בִּיאַת הַקְּטַנָּה פוֹטֶרֶת אֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה:
Bartenura
לשתי יתומות. נכריות:
או חליצתה. לאחר שתגדיל:
וכן שתי חרשות. כלומר כשם ששתי קטנות ביאת אחת מהן פוטרת צרתה, כך בשתי חרשות. אבל חליצה ליכא למימר בחרשת דלאו בת חליצה היא.
אחת קטנה ואחת חרשת. אע״ג דשתיהן אין נישואיהן נישואין גמורין, מכל מקום לא ידעינן בהי מינייהו ניחא ליה והיא חשיבא אשתו טפי:
ביאת הגדולה פוטרת את הקטנה. דביאת מי שנשואיה נשואין גמורין פוטרת אותה שאין נשואיה גמורין. אבל איפכא לא:
לשתי יתומות – foreigners (i.e., not related to each other).
או חליצתה – after she grows up.
וכן שתי חרשות – meaning to say, that juste as the two minor-age girls, having a sexual act with one of them exempts her rival/co-wife, so also with two deaf-mute women, but there is no Halitzah, to state that a deaf-mute woman is not one who engages in Halitzah.
אחת קטנה ואחת חרשת – even though that for both of them, their marriages are not complete marriages, nevertheless, we did not know which of them is satisfactory to him and she is considered more his wife.