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Yevamos 2:9 - 2:10

The Mishnah Yomi for Monday, October 30, 2023 is Yevamos 2:9 - 2:10

Mishnah 1

Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 2 Mishnah 9

יבמות פרק ב׳ משנה ט׳

9
An agent who brought a bill of divorce from a country overseas and said: It was written in my presence and it was signed in my presence, as required in order to establish the bill of divorce as valid, may not marry the wife, i.e., the divorcée. Since the validity of the bill of divorce is based upon his testimony, marrying the divorcée creates the impression that he had an ulterior motive for his testimony. Similarly, a witness who testified that a certain man died, or testified: I killed him, or: We killed him, may not marry that man’s wife. Rabbi Yehuda says: If he testified: I killed him, his wife may not be married at all based on that evidence, as his testimony is unreliable, but if he said: We killed him, his wife may be married to anyone other than those witnesses.
הַמֵּבִיא גֵט מִמְּדִינַת הַיָּם, וְאָמַר בְּפָנַי נִכְתַּב וּבְפָנַי נֶחְתַּם, לֹא יִשָּׂא אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ. מֵת, הֲרַגְתִּיו, הֲרַגְנוּהוּ, לֹא יִשָּׂא אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, הֲרַגְתִּיו, לֹא תִנָּשֵׂא אִשְׁתּוֹ. הֲרַגְנוּהוּ, תִּנָּשֵׂא אִשְׁתּוֹ:
ט׳

המביא גט ממדינת הים – he must state, “in my presence it was written and in my presence it was signed,” and the reason is explained in [Tractate] Gittin (see Bartenura commentary to Chapter 1, Mishnah 1) for [according to] one Master, because they are not expert in [writing the Jewish bill of divorce] for her sake, and to the [other] Master, because witnesses are not found to attest to it.

לא ישא את אשתו – because we rely upon his word.

מת הרגתיו וכו' – since it was upon his testimony that she married, and it is possible to slander, lest his eyes were upon her and he made a false testimony about her but she could marry to another, for a woman can be married [upon the testimony] of one witness.

ר"י אומר הרגתיו לא תנשא אשתו – through his testimony even to another because he is a wicked person, and the Torah stated (Exodus 23:1): “You shall not join hands with the guilty [to act as a malicious] witness,” but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda, for we hold that a person does not incriminate himself (i.e., his testimony against himself has no legal effect -see Tractate Sanhedrin 9b), for a person is considered a relative regarding himself, and we believe him that that he was killed, but we don’t believe him regarding what he said that he killed him, and therefore, even if he said that he killed him, you can marry his wife.”

הרגנוהו תנשא אשתו – it is explained in the Gemara (Tractate Yevamot 25b) when he says: I was with those who killed him, but I did not kill him.

המביא גט ממדינת הים. צריך שיאמר בפני נכתב ובפני נחתם. וטעמא מפורש בגיטין, למר משום שאין בקיאין לשמה, ולמר שאין עדים מצויין לקיימו:

לא ישא את אשתו. משום דאדבוריה סמכינן:

מת הרגתיו וכו׳ הואיל ועל עדותו נישאת, איכא לזות שפתים, שמא עיניו נתן בה והעיד עדות שקר עליה. אבל תנשא לאחר, דאשה נישאת בעד אחד:

ר״י אומר הרגתיו לא תנשא אשתו. בעדותו אפילו לאחר, מפני שהוא רשע והתורה אמרה אל תשת רשע עד. ואין הלכה כר״י. דקיי״ל אין אדם משים עצמו רשע, דאדם קרוב אצל עצמו. ומהימנינן ליה שנהרג, אבל לא מהימנינן ליה במאי דאמר שהוא הרגו. והלכך אפילו כי אמר הרגתיו תנשא אשתו:

הרגנוהו תנשא אשתו. מפורש בגמרא, באומר אני הייתי עם הורגיו אבל אני לא הרגתיו:

Mishnah 2

Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 2 Mishnah 10

יבמות פרק ב׳ משנה י׳

10
A Sage who refused to release a woman from a vow that rendered the wife forbidden to her husband by that vow, resulting in her being divorced from her husband, may not marry her, so as to avoid suspicion that he rendered her forbidden to her husband in order to marry her himself. However, a judge before whom a woman performed refusal when she was a minor, declaring that she did not desire the husband chosen for her by her family, or before whom she performed ḥalitza, may marry her because he was only one member of the court, thereby alleviating suspicion. And for all of these who were involved in permitting the wife to remarry, i.e., the judge, the agent who brought a bill of divorce, and the one who testified for a woman that her husband died, if they had wives at the time of the ruling or the testimony and their wives died thereafter, then those women they had set free are permitted to be married to them. There is no concern that while their wives were still alive these individuals set their eyes upon another woman. And with regard to all of these women who were prohibited from marrying a certain man due to some suspicion, if they were subsequently married to others and then were divorced or widowed from the second husband, they are permitted to be married to them, i.e., to the judge, messenger, or witness who permitted her to remarry. And all of these women who were prohibited from marrying due to some suspicion are permitted to the sons or to the brothers of those who set them free.
הֶחָכָם שֶׁאָסַר אֶת הָאִשָּׁה בְּנֶדֶר עַל בַּעְלָהּ, הֲרֵי זֶה לֹא יִשָּׂאֶנָּה. מֵאֲנָה, אוֹ שֶׁחָלְצָה בְפָנָיו, יִשָּׂאֶנָּה, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהוּא בֵית דִּין. וְכֻלָּן שֶׁהָיוּ לָהֶם נָשִׁים, וָמֵתוּ, מֻתָּרוֹת לִנָּשֵׂא לָהֶם. וְכֻלָּן שֶׁנִּשְּׂאוּ לַאֲחֵרִים וְנִתְגָּרְשׁוּ אוֹ שֶׁנִּתְאַלְמְנוּ, מֻתָּרוֹת לִנָּשֵׂא לָהֶן. וְכֻלָּן מֻתָּרוֹת לִבְנֵיהֶם אוֹ לַאֲחֵיהֶן:
י׳

בנדר – she took a vow refusing any benefit/favor from her husband and he did not and he did not invalidate it and she came to a Sage to release her and he did not find an opening for regret for a vow made under misapprehension.

לא ישאנה – because of suspicion.

שהוא ב"ד – meaning to say, a woman’s protest against a marriage contracted during her minority and Halitzah – this Sage did not do as an individual because we hold that Halitzah and a woman’s protest against a marriage contracted during her minority [we require a court] of two or three we don’t suspect, but the release from vows [is performed] by an expert individual.

וכולן – the Sage and he person bringing a Jewish bill of divorce and a person testifying about a woman to [be allowed] to marry her, as are taught about in the Mishnah, he should not take her in marriage if he had wives at the time of the action but if they died afterwards, they (i.e., the women) are permitted to marry them for now there is no suspicion.

וכולן – these women.

שנישאו לאחרים – that the Sage forbade or to the witness or to the person who brings the Jewish bill of divorce [from abroad].

וכולן מותרות לבניהם ולאחיהן – of these who permit them and they are not forbidden other than to them alone, for a man does not sin for his son or for his brothers, and all those that we mentioned, one should not marry, and if he married, he should not remove/divorce except for the where there is a claim that she I s married woman, for if the Jewish court removed her from her husband with witness and clear proof, even if he married her, he should remove/divorce her. But if witnesses came regarding an ugly matter alone, such as that they saw a man going out and she is wearing [only] a petticoat/breech-cloth (and Ezra, according to Talmud Bava Kamma 82a ordained that a woman must wear such clothing as a matter of chastity), or a man goes out and she is standing on top of the bed and similar kinds of things, if he married her, he cannot remove/divorce her, and if after the witnesses about an ugly matter came and a rumor went out and didn’t cease for the rumor stood for a day-and-a-half, if he married her, he should divorce her, other than if they had children from her, for then, he doesn’t remove her in order to not to cast aspersion upon his children.

בנדר. שנדרה הנאה מבעלה ולא הפר לה, ובאת לחכם להתיר לה ולא מצא פתח לחרטה:

לא ישאנה. משום חשד:

שהוא בית דין. כלומר, מיאון או חליצה לא עשה חכם זה ביחידי, משום דקיי״ל חליצה ומיאונים בשנים ושלשה לא חשידי. אבל היתר נדרים ביחיד מומחה:

וכולן. החכם והמביא גט והמעיד על האשה להשיאה, דתנן בהו לא יכנוס, אם היה להן נשים בשעת מעשה, ומתו אח״כ, מותרות להנשא להם דהשתא ליכא חשד:

וכולן. הנשים הללו:

שנישאו לאחרים. כשאסרה החכם או כשהעיד העד שמת בעלה, ומתו הבעלים השניים:

מותרות לינשא. לחכם ולעד ולמביא גט:

וכולן מותרות לבניהם ולאחיהן. של אלו המתירים אותן. ואינן אסורות אלא להם לבדם, דאין אדם חוטא בשביל בנו או בשביל אחיו. וכל הני דאמרינן לא יכנוס, אם כנס אינו מוציא, חוץ מהנטען על אשת איש שאם הוציאוה בית דין מתחת בעלה בעדים וראיה ברורה, אפילו אם כנס יוציא. ואם באו עדי דבר מכוער בלבד, כגון שראו אדם יוצא והיא חוגרת בסינר או אדם יוצא והיא עומדת מעל המטה וכיוצא בזה, אם כנס לא יוציא. ואם לאחר שבאו עדי דבר מכוער יצא קלא דלא פסיק, שעמד הקול יום וחצי, אם כנס יוציא, אלא אם כן היו לו בנים ממנה שאז אינו מוציא, כדי שלא להוציא לעז על בניו:

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