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1) ARE CONVERTS PERMITTED TO THEIR RELATIVES?

(a) Rejection: No, there is not even a prohibition; since the end of the Mishnah says, they are liable, the beginning said, they are not liable.
(b) (Rava): This that people say, legally, a Mitzri has no father - do not say, this is because they have relations wantonly, and we do not know who the father is, but if we did know, we would be concerned.

1. Rather, even when we know, we are not concerned - for twins come from the same drop of semen, it just got split into 2, and the Beraisa teaches, they do not do Chalitzah or Yibum!
2. Rather, the Torah considers the child to have no father - "Their flesh is flesh of donkeys, and their seed is as that of horses".

(c) (R. Yosi): There was a case of Niftaim the convert, who married the wife of his maternal brother. Chachamim said, there is no law of marriage regarding a convert.
(d) Objection: If he engaged a woman it does not take effect?!
(e) Correction: Rather, there is no prohibition of a brother's wife by a convert.

1. Suggestion: Isn't it the case, she had married the 1st brother after conversion?
2. Rejection: No, before conversion.
3. Objection: If so, obviously she is permitted!
4. Answer: One might have thought, we decree on account of the case when he married her after conversion - we hear, this is not so.

(f) (Beraisa - Ben Yosyan): Overseas, I saw a convert that married his maternal brother's wife. I asked, who permitted her to you? He said, 'Here are a woman and her 7 children that were permitted. R. Akiva sat on this rock and said 2 things'.

1. A convert may marry the wife of his maternal brother.
2. "Hash-m's word to Yonah, the 2nd time" - he did not speak to him a 3rd time.

(g) Suggestion: The Beraisa permits the wife of a maternal brother - this is one he married after conversion.

1. Rejection: No, before conversion.
2. Objection: If so, obviously she is permitted!
3. Answer: One might have thought, we decree on account of the case when he married her after conversion - we hear, this is not so.

(h) Question: Is the convert really believed to say that R. Akiva permitted this?

1. (Rav Yehudah): A Chacham that says a teaching - if he said it before the case arose, he is believed; if not, we do not accept the teaching.

(i) Answer #1: This case was, he had already said the teaching.
(j) Answer #2: Here he was believed, because the woman and her 7 children had already been permitted.
(k) Answer #3: Here he was believed, since he said another teaching with it.
(l) (Beraisa): "Hash-m's word to Yonah, the 2nd time" - he did not speak to him a 3rd time.
(m) Question: But it says, "... as the word Hash-m spoke through Yonah"!
(n) Answer #1 (Ravina): He only spoke twice with him regarding Ninveh.
(o) Answer #2 (Rav Nachman Bar Yitzchak): "As the word Hash-m spoke through Yonah" - just as Ninveh was reversed from evil to good, also in the days of Yerovom Ben Yoash, Yisrael reversed from evil to good.

(a) (Beraisa): A convert that was born after his mother converted, but was conceived before conversion, he is forbidden to maternal relatives, but not to paternal relatives.

1. If he married his maternal sister, he must divorce her; his paternal sister, they may stay married;
2. If he married his father's maternal sister, he must divorce her; his father's paternal sister, they may stay married;

3. If he married his mother's maternal sister, he must divorce her; his mother's paternal sister - R. Meir says, he must divorce her; Chachamim say, they may stay married.

i. R. Meir says, any relative on the mother's side, he must divorce her; on the father's side, they may stay married.

4. He is permitted to the wife of his maternal brother, and the wife of his father's brother; all other Arayos are permitted to him, to include his father's wife.
5. If he married a woman and her daughter, he has Nisu'in with one, and divorces the other; l'Chatchilah, he should not do Nisu'in.
6. If his wife dies, he is permitted to his mother-in-law; some teach, he is forbidden to her.

(b) Suggestion: The Beraisa permits the wife of his brother - this is one he married after conversion.

1. Rejection: No, before conversion.
2. Objection: If so, obviously she is permitted! 3. Answer: One might have thought, we decree on account of the case when he married her after conversion - we hear, this is not so.

(c) Question: The Beraisa says, 'If he married a woman and her daughter, he has Nisu'in with one, and divorces the other; l'Chatchilah, he should not do Nisu'in' - if he must divorce her, of course, l'Chatchilah he may not do Nisu'in!
(d) Answer: This refers to the cases where Chachamim say he may stay married - l'Chatchilah, he should not do Nisu'in.
(e) (Beraisa): If his wife dies, he is permitted to his mother-in-law; some teach, he is forbidden to her.

1. The latter opinion is as R. Yishmael; the former, as R. Akiva.

i. The latter is as R. Yishmael, who says that a mother-in-law after the wife dies is forbidden as before; by a convert, we decreed;
ii. The former opinion is as R. Akiva, who says that the prohibition of a mother-in-law becomes lighter after the wife dies - by a convert, Chachamim did not decree.

(a) (Mishnah): The children of 5 women got mixed up. These children grew up and married women. One of the men died without children. We have a 5-way doubt who his father was - a (certain) son from each of 4 of the 5 possible fathers does Chalitzah, and a son of 1 possible father may do Yibum.
(b) If another of the mixed-up men died, the man that did Yibum and sons from 3 other fathers do Chalitzah, and a son from 1 father does Yibum;
(c) Anytime a man of the mixture dies, his widow receives Chalitzah from 4 men and may do Yibum.
(d) (Gemara): The Chalitzos must be done before Yibum, lest her husband was from a different father, and the 'Yibum' is really a Shomeres Yavam (improperly) marrying a man that is not her Yavam.
(e) Question: Why must the man that did the 1st Yibum do Chalitzah to another Shomeres Yavam - he should be allowed to do Yibum!
(f) Answer: We do not want 1 man to do Yibum to all of them - rather, 1 man from each father does 1 Yibum, perhaps each Yevamah will get her true Yavam.
(g) (Beraisa): Some of them (have) brothers, some (have) no brothers - the brothers do Chalitzah, those without brothers do Yibum.
(h) Question: What does this mean?
(i) Answer (Rav Safra): If some of the mixed-up men have paternal brothers, and some have maternal brothers, the maternal brothers do Chalitzah, the paternal brothers do Yibum.
(j) (Beraisa): If some of the brothers are Kohanim, and others are not, the Kohanim do Chalitzah, the others do Yibum;
(k) If some of the brothers are Kohanim, and others are maternal brothers, both do Chalitzah, not Yibum.