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Yevamos 15:10 - 16:1

The Mishnah Yomi for Saturday, December 23, 2023 is Yevamos 15:10 - 16:1

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Mishnah 1

Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 15 Mishnah 10

יבמות פרק ט"ו משנה י׳

10
If she said: A yavam was born for me overseas, i.e., when the family left the country her husband did not have a brother, and she claims that in the meantime a brother was born to her husband, and she also said: My husband died and afterward my yavam died, or: My yavam died and afterward my husband died, in either case she is deemed credible. This is because when she left she was not presumed to require levirate marriage, and the suggestion that her husband now has a brother is based solely on her testimony. However, if she went, she and her husband and her yavam, overseas, and upon her return she said: My husband died and afterward my yavam died, or: My yavam died and afterward my husband died, she is not deemed credible, as a woman is not deemed credible if she says: My yavam died, in order that she may marry another man. And she is not deemed credible if she says that her sister died, in order that she may enter the house of her sister’s husband. And a man is not deemed credible if he says: My brother died, so that he may enter into levirate marriage with his brother’s wife, and he is not deemed credible when he says that his wife died, in order that he may marry his wife’s sister. The Sages accepted impaired testimony of this kind only when there was a concern about creating a situation of a deserted wife.
נִתַּן לִי יָבָם בִּמְדִינַת הַיָּם, אָמְרָה מֵת בַּעְלִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת יְבָמִי, יְבָמִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ בַּעְלִי, נֶאֱמֶנֶת. הָלְכָה הִיא וּבַעְלָהּ וִיבָמָהּ לִמְדִינַת הַיָּם, אָמְרָה מֵת בַּעְלִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת יְבָמִי, יְבָמִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ בַּעְלִי, אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת. שֶׁאֵין הָאִשָּׁה נֶאֱמֶנֶת לוֹמַר מֵת יְבָמִי, שֶׁתִּנָּשֵׂא. וְלֹא, מֵתָה אֲחוֹתִי, שֶׁתִּכָּנֵס לְבֵיתוֹ. וְאֵין הָאִישׁ נֶאֱמָן לוֹמַר מֵת אָחִי, שֶׁיְּיַבֵּם אִשְׁתּוֹ. וְלֹא, מֵתָה אִשְׁתִּי, שֶׁיִּשָּׂא אֲחוֹתָהּ:
י׳

ניתן לי יבם במדינת הים – that her mother-in-law gave birth to abroad, and she went in the legal presumption that she has no levir.

מת בעלי ואח"כ מת יבמי וכו' – in both cases she is permitted to anyone in the world and is believed and permitted to anyone in the marketplace [of the world] in her original presumptive legal status that the mouth that forbids is the one that permits.

ניתן לי יבם במדינת הים. שילדה חמותה במדינת הים, והיא הלכה בחזקת שאין לה יבם:

מת בעלי ואח״כ מת יבמי וכו׳ דתרווייהו קא שריא נפשה לשוק, נאמנת ומותרת לשוק בחזקתה הראשונה, שהפה שאסר הוא הפה שהתיר:

Mishnah 2

Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 16 Mishnah 1

יבמות פרק ט"ז משנה א׳

1
In the case of a woman whose husband and rival wife traveled to a country overseas, and witnesses came and told her: Your husband died, she shall not marry any other man, in case she requires levirate marriage with her brother-in-law, i.e., yavam, in which case she is prohibited from marrying anyone else. And she also shall not enter into levirate marriage until she knows whether she, i.e., her rival wife, is pregnant. If her rival wife bears a child to her late husband, she does not have a levirate bond with her brother-in-law, and she is therefore prohibited from marrying him. If she had a mother-in-law overseas, but her late husband had no brothers, she need not be concerned that a brother to her husband may have been born. But if her mother-in-law departed from her town pregnant, this widow should be concerned that perhaps her late husband now has a brother, with whom she is obligated in levirate marriage. Rabbi Yehoshua says: Even in such a case she need not be concerned and may marry whomever she wishes.
הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁהָלַךְ בַּעְלָהּ וְצָרָתָהּ לִמְדִינַת הַיָּם, וּבָאוּ וְאָמְרוּ לָהּ מֵת בַּעְלֵךְ, לֹא תִנָּשֵׂא וְלֹא תִתְיַבֵּם, עַד שֶׁתֵּדַע שֶׁמָּא מְעֻבֶּרֶת הִיא צָרָתָהּ. הָיְתָה לָהּ חָמוֹת, אֵינָהּ חוֹשֶׁשֶׁת. יָצְתָה מְלֵאָה חוֹשֶׁשֶׁת. רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ אוֹמֵר, אֵינָהּ חוֹשֶׁשֶׁת:
א׳

האשה. לא תנשא – since her husband went [abroad] without children.

ולא תתיבם – for perhaps her rival/associate wife gave birth, and if she should say, perform the ritual of removing the shoe of the brother-in-law who refuses to perform levirate marriage, and afterwards marry whomever you want in the world whichever way you turn. They answered in the Gemara (Tractate Yevamot 119b) because a woman whose husband died without children who has performed the rite of Halitzah with a brother of the deceased is disqualified of [marrying into] the priesthood and if she should perform the rite of Halitzah and it is found afterward that her rival/associate wife gave birth to a living child, her Halitzah is not anything, they need to announce concerning her that she is fit for the priesthood, and was not disqualified on account of that rite of ahalitzah. And whomever that it is found at the time of her Halitzah, and is not found at the time where they announced about the Halitzah, it is nothing and she is not disqualified from the priesthood through her and when he sees her afterwards married to a Kohen, he would say that a woman who had performed the rite of Halitzah is permitted to a Kohen.

היתה לה חמות – abroad.

אינה חוששת – perhaps she had been given a levir even though we suspect above lest her rival wife had given birth whether to a male or a female, he exempts her to this one who is performing the duty of levirate marriage but her mother-in-law, if she also gave birth, she would not be needed for her for this one but if she had given birth to male, it is possible to state that perhaps she aborted, and if you can assume that she did not abort, perhaps it was a girl.

יצתה מלאה – pregnant.

חוששת – perhaps she had been given a levir. But the Halakha not according to Rabbi Yehoshua who said that she does not have to worry/scruple [concerning her].

האשה. לא תנשא. הואיל ובלא בנים יצא בעלה:

ולא תתיבם. שמא ילדה צרתה. וא״ת תחלוץ ואח״כ תנשא לשוק ממה נפשך. תירצו בגמרא, משום דחלוצה פסולה לכהונה, ואם תחלוץ וימצא אחר כך שילדה צרתה ולד של קיימא וחליצתה אינה כלום, צריכים להכריז עליה שהיא כשרה לכהונה ולא נפסלה מחמת אותה חליצה. ומי שנמצא בשעת חליצתה ולא נמצא בשעה שהכריזו על החליצה דלאו כלום היא ולא נפסלה לכהונה על ידה כשיראה אותה נשואה אחר כך לכהן יאמר שחלוצה מותרת לכהן:

היתה לה חמות. במדינת הים:

אינה חוששת. שמא ניתן לה יבם. אע״ג דחיישינן לעיל שמא ילדה צרה, התם הוא דכל מה דילדה צרה בין זכר בין נקבה מפיק לה להיאך מיבם, אבל חמות דאי נמי ילדה לא זקיק לה להיאך אלא א״כ ילדה זכר, איכא למימר שמא הפילה, ואם תמצא לומר לא הפילה שמא נקבה היתה:

יצתה מלאה. מעוברת:

חוששת. שמא ניתן לה יבם. ואין הלכה כר׳ יהושע דאמר אינה חוששת:

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