Today's Mishnah Yomi
Yevamos 12:4 - 12:5
The Mishnah Yomi for Wednesday, December 6, 2023 is Yevamos 12:4 - 12:5
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 12 Mishnah 4
יבמות פרק י"ב משנה ד׳
Bartenura
החרש שנחלץ חליצתו פסולה. שאינו פוטרה במקום שיש אח אחר כשר:
והחרשת שחלצה פסולה. שהיא עצמה אינה נפטרת בחליצתה, ואין לה תקנה אלא ביבום, ואם רצה אחר כך להוציא יוציא בגט:
והחולצת לקטן חליצתה פסולה. כל היכא דתנינן בפרקין חליצה פסולה, אינה יכולה להתיבם אחר אותה חליצה וצריכה חליצה אחרת מעלייתא להתירה לעלמא. והאי תנא דקרי לחליצת קטן חליצה פסולה דמשמע שפוסלה מלהתיבם, ר׳ מאיר היא, דאילו רבנן אמרי אין בחליצת קטן כלום ולא נפסלה מלהתיבם. והלכה כחכמים:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 12 Mishnah 5
יבמות פרק י"ב משנה ה׳
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חלצה בשנים – fit/valid.
בשלשה – and one of them is a relative or invalid, and there didn’t remain an other than two valid individuals,
חליצתה פסולה – her Halitzah is disqualified, and such is the Halakha, that there is no valid Halitzah with less than three.
חלצה בשנים. כשרים:
או בשלשה. והיה אחד מהם קרוב או פסול, דלא נשתיירו כי אם שנים כשרים:
חליצתה פסולה. וכן הלכה שאין חליצה כשרה בפחות משלשה:
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Mishnah Yomi is a daily study program where participants study two mishnayot (individual teachings from the Mishnah) every day. By following this program, one can complete the entire Mishnah in about six years.
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החרש שנחלץ חליצתו פסולה – he does not free her in a place where there is another who is valid.
והחרשת שחלצה פסולה – and she herself is not freed through her Halitzah and she has no remedy other than through levirate marriage and if he wanted afterwards to free her, he releases her with a Jewish bill of divorce.
והחולצת לקטן חליצתה פסולה – all where we taught in our chapter that her Halitzah is invalid, she is not able to engage in a levirate marriage after that Halitzah and she requires another valid Halitzah to free her for herself and this Tanna/teacher who calls the Halitzah of a minor an invalid Halitzah, which implies that it invalidates her from engaging in a levirate marriage, is Rabbi Meir, for had it been the Rabbis, they would say there is no Halitzah of a minor at all, and she is not invalidated from engaging in a levirate marriage, and the Halakha is according to the Sages.