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Oct 27, 2026
speaker_1UNKNOWN
The Gemara
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
asks, number one, how do we allow a person to marry four women? The Gemara says, When we're talking about Yibum, it says that the elders would talk to him.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
From here we learn that we give him the proper advice.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
Meaning to say, Let's say the Yabam is a little pitcher.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
13, 14 years old.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
And this lady is 35.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
Now you're going to tell the guy to do Yibum? They have a 20 years difference.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
You're going to tell the guy to do Yibum? No! You tell the body, don't do Yibum.
Hershel SchachterHOST
The blood is not mesayach gezef to him.
Hershel SchachterHOST
And you allow Yibum.
Hershel SchachterHOST
If you say that the Rabbonim, the fathers, how could they ask for the father? So you shouldn't allow Yibum? It's a Nisukos.
Hershel SchachterHOST
It's just not Sholom Achmit.
Hershel SchachterHOST
It's a Nisukos.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Why? He stands in lieu of his brother, and the minute he did Yibam, he's already in lieu of his brother.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Rava says, no, anything that happens after death is frozen, even after he does Yibum, it doesn't help.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Because after all, the most he is is like a bachor.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
A bachor does not get anything from the moment of death of the father until it's divided up, anything different than anybody else.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
Yeshu.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
Tzeduki is asking him, he's like, so there are these seven brothers and this woman marries the oldest one, the brother dies, then they do Yibum, and then he dies, and then so, and all seven, and then so then, fine, so she marries them all, and then they all die, and because he does Yibum, when triatamatim happens, who is she going to end up with? Right.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
So
David BassousHOST
that's what he asked her.
Shalom RosnerHOST
The Mishra continued and said that in the case where gedolah v'ketanah, where one is a gedolah, one is a ketanah, one is a daraisah marriage, and one is a drabanan marriage, so then things get a little more difficult, because once the daraisah husband dies, so then there's a chiv of yibam mi daraisah, but there's a marriage, and there's achos ishap, So that was the three-way machlokas we had.
Shalom RosnerHOST
If mei sabaylo shel gedola, if the daraisa marriage, the man dies, and now his wife is zakuk to his brother.
Shalom RosnerHOST
The problem is his brother is married to his wife's sister.
Shalom RosnerHOST
So what do you do there? So we have three different opinions in the Mishnah.
Shalom RosnerHOST
Reb Eliezer said, well, we advise the katana.
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Shalom RosnerHOST
So he's mixed up.
Shalom RosnerHOST
And then Levi dies.
Shalom RosnerHOST
So now what does Shimon do? Because this woman, and then Levi, when he got older, he has another wife.
Richard HidaryHOST
Fine, do that.
Richard HidaryHOST
But cannot do Yibbum.
Richard HidaryHOST
Why? Because perhaps, we'll see in a second, perhaps that tumtum was a male, but was sterile from birth.
Richard HidaryHOST
And any time you have someone who's a male who's sterile from birth, then there is no possibility of doing Yibum and also no requirement to do Chalitza and it's possible that this tumtum is a male, but sterile from birth.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
Even though
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Yibum,
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
my friend, even though both options are available to the writer, the mitzvah is to do mitzvah to Yibum and chalitza is just to get out of it.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
But the mitzvah, definitely Yibum is greater than chalitza.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
And you see that we advise you not to do the mitzvah of Yibum, bypassing and go to Chalitza, not to cause a fight.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
This is my source that for Ketata, for a fight, you should avoid, even though you have to bypass now, so far good? No.
Yosef Haim RabbaniHOST
However, the second statement that this really handsome, smart individual said is not so smart.
Michael RosensweigHOST
it's not only that ptosis in Kiddushan, this is a big issue in general, in what they call that's kind of the bigger topic.
Michael RosensweigHOST
For example, in Yibum, this is a massive issue.
Michael RosensweigHOST
I was looking around for Asher to see if he was here, but he's not here yet, because he's on a mission, but Like, for example, if women are not obligated in the mitzvah of Yibam, if it's only a mitzvah which is muteles on men, so the whole issues of like ase do halos ase, you know, considering it's, you know, the, you know, the Losase, the Yisr, you know, H-S-A-H, you know, applies, you know, to the woman as well.
Michael RosensweigHOST
So that's like a huge issue there.
speaker_0HOST
So Rav Gamaliel said, "If the Katana wants to do Mion and her husband's Miyam with the Gadola, fine.
speaker_0HOST
If not, she doesn't have to do Mion." The Gadola then waits until the Katana becomes a Gadola, and then she, the Yevamah, the original Gadola, goes free because she's a Chaysisha to no Yibum or Chalitza.
speaker_0HOST
So for clarify, the Gemara tells the Kanima Sisa, this is what the commission is telling us, meaning this from Gamaliel Shita, "VaKatana Tamten Ashet Hagdil," in regards to Katana.
speaker_0HOST
She waits until she grows up.
speaker_0HOST
The Yevamah Gadola now can go free and marry somebody else.
speaker_0HOST
Rebbe Yech尼 comments, "Zu Devarim Gamaliel," this is where Gamaliel holds.
speaker_0HOST
"Im Mekadesh Achai SeVimto, Niftrit Vimto Mina Chalitza Umina Yibum." If a person Mekadesh the sister of his Yevamah, so then the Yevamah becomes, patur from Chalitza and Yibum, a Yevamah falls to a Yavam, and instead of doing Chalitza or Yibum to the Yevamah herself, the Yavam is Mekadesh her sister.
speaker_0HOST
That's "Achai Zekukaso," which he's technically not allowed to do.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Now, the reason I'm giving this whole tortured introduction to the issue of Bechorah is because I think that this impacts on how we read the whole story of the Bechorah from the very beginning.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Let's go to the other passage which is critical for this, which is the passage about Yibum.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Brothers dwell together, and one dies without his child.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
His wife should not go marry somebody else.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
He's the one who stands instead of the father.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Instead, not instead, but in the stead of his father.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
And that's what you see in the source of Yibum.
Yitzchak EtshalomHOST
Now, let's see where that all starts.
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