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Yevamos 36

YEVAMOS 36 & 37 - sponsored by Hagaon Rav Yosef Pearlman of London, a living demonstration of love for and adoration of the Torah.

1) YIBUM AND CHALITZAH OF A PREGNANT WOMAN

(a) (Rava): We hold, any woman fit for Yibum is fit for Chalitzah; one not fit for Yibum is not fit for Chalitzah!
(b) Answer #2 (Rava): The Beraisa reads thusly: One who does Yibum, and she is found to be pregnant, the Tzarah does not marry, lest the baby is viable, and the Yibum and Chalitzah of a pregnant woman are invalid, and a baby does not exempt until it is born.
1. A Beraisa supports Rava: One who does Yibum, and she is found to be pregnant, the Tzarah does not marry, lest the baby is viable, and the Yibum and Chalitzah of a pregnant woman do not exempt, only the baby, and a baby does not exempt until it is born.
2. The concern is lest the baby is viable - if it is not, the Tzarah is exempt!
3. Suggestion: This refutes Reish Lakish!
4. Rejection: Reish Lakish can say, the Beraisa reads thusly: One who does Yibum, and she is found to be pregnant, the Tzarah does not marry, lest the baby is *not* viable, and the Yibum and Chalitzah of a pregnant woman are not valid;
i. If you will say, we should go after most women, who have viable babies - the baby does not exempt until he is born.
(c) R. Elazar: Can it be, Reish Lakish's law is correct but is not learned in a Mishnah?
1. R. Elazar later found that it is.
(d) (Mishnah): Leah's husband and Tzarah went overseas. Witnesses tell Leah that her husband died. She may not get married or do Yibum, until she learns if her Tzarah is pregnant.
1. We understand, she cannot do Yibum - perhaps her Tzarah will have a viable baby, and Leah is forbidden mid'Oraisa to the Yavam, she is his brother's wife (with no Mitzvah of Yibum).
2. Question: Why can't she do Chalitzah?
i. We understand, she cannot do Chalitzah and marry within 9 months - this is our doubt (perhaps the Tzarah is pregnant with a viable baby).
ii. Why can't she do Chalitzah within 9 months, and marry after 9 months?
3. Counter-question: No matter how you hold - why can't she do Chalitzah after 9 months, and then marry!
4. Answer: One cannot bring proof from this Beraisa - Abaye Bar Aba explained, the concern is, lest the Tzarah will have a viable baby, and we will need a proclamation that Leah is permitted to a Kohen (since the Chalitzah was invalid).
i. Question: What is wrong with such a proclamation?
ii. Answer: Perhaps someone saw the Chalitzah and did not hear the proclamation, and he will think that a Chalutzah is permitted to a Kohen.
5. Objection (Abaye): The Beraisa does not say she may not do Chalitzah or Yibum - it says, she may not marry nor do Yibum - that is, without Chalitzah!
i. If she does Chalitzah, she is permitted!
(e) A Beraisa supports Reish Lakish.
1. (Beraisa): One who does Chalitzah to a pregnant woman, and she miscarries - she needs Chalitzah from the brothers.
2) WHERE THE LAW IS AS REISH LAKISH
(a) (Rava): The law is as Reish Lakish in 3 places (where he argues on R. Yochanan); this is 1 of them.
(b) The second place - (Mishnah): One who orally gives away his property - if he gave more to one (brother) than another, or gave the firstborn a single share, his words take effect;
1. If he said this is the inheritance, his words are void; if he wrote that it is a gift, be it at the start, end or middle, his words take effect;
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2. (Reish Lakish): He does not acquire until he says, 'Ploni and Ploni will inherit fields A and B, that I gave to them as a gift and they will inherit them.'
(c) The third place - (Mishnah): One who writes 'All my property should go to my son after I die' - the father cannot sell because he gave them to the son; the son cannot sell because they are in the jurisdiction of the father;
1. If the father sold, they are sold until he dies; if the son sold, the buyer gets nothing until the father dies.
2. The son sold in the life of the father, and the son died in the life of the father. R. Yochanan says, the buyer does not acquire it - the (father's) right to eat fruits is like owning the land itself (so the son's sale is null);
3. Reish Lakish says, the buyer acquires it - the right to eat fruits is not like owning the land itself.
3) DIVORCING A WOMAN IMPROPERLY MARRIED.
(a) (Mishnah): If the baby is not viable ...
(b) (Beraisa - R. Eliezer): He expels his wife with a Get.
(c) (Rava): R. Meir and R. Eliezer hold similarly.
1. (Beraisa - R. Meir): A man may not marry a woman pregnant or nursing a baby from another man. If he did, he must divorce her and may never remarry her; Chachamim say, he must divorce her, but may remarry her at the proper time.
(d) Objection (Abaye): They may differ! Perhaps R. Eliezer only said his law because he transgressed a Torah law, his brother's wife; by a Rabbinic law, he may hold as Chachamim!
1. Perhaps R. Meir only said his law by a Rabbinic prohibition - Chachamim strengthened their words more than mid'Oraisa laws; by a mid'Oraisa law, it may suffice to separate without a Get!
(e) (Rava): Chachamim say, he must give her a Get.
(f) (Mar Zutra): The language of the Mishnah proves this - it says, he *expels* her, not he *separates* from her.
(g) (Rav Ashi): A Mishnah teaches, R. Shimon Ben Gamliel says, any baby that lives 30 days is viable; less than 30 days, we are in doubt.
1. The only child of the deceased died within 30 days; the widow became engaged.
i. (Ravina citing Rava): If the new husband is a Yisrael, the Yavam does Chalitzah to her; if he is a Kohen, she does not need Chalitzah;
(h) (Rav Mesharshiya citing Rava): In either case she must do Chalitzah with the Yavam.
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