Y Yevamos 69

The Mishnah had a machlokes, whether chalitza can be done at night.

Can it be done at night? Reb Eliezer and the Rabbanon.

The Reb Eliezer said pasol, and Tana Kama said kasher.

Tana Kama said it's okay to be done at night.

My time with Reb Eliezer.

Why does Reb Eliezer say that it is pasol? Says the Gemara, le'einei hazakenim.

So instead of saying, as the Gemara says, elsewhere for other halachas, maybe it's like din.

And if chalitza has the status of din, not it is monetary, but it has the same status as chosha mishpat, and therefore that's why it requires a bezdin, and that's why other halachas, but the Gemara doesn't say it.

The Gemara gives a specific rule because of the chalitza.

Le'eneh azakenim has to be done in front of the eyes of the azakenim.

So that's during the day, where they can't see at night.

What do the Rabbanim do? The Rabbanim who allow Chalitza at night, what do they do with Le'eniazekenim? They would say that that excludes blind judges.

Le'eniazekenim, blind.

And Rav Chaikinievsky explains, it doesn't mean blind in two eyes, totally blind.

That's for sure.

They can't even be a bezdin, a regular bezdin.

Chalitza has a higher standard.

So this is saying even in one eye.

Even in one eye, says Rav Chaikinievsky.

It's coming to exclude blind in one eye.

In general, the chideshir is that even in one eye, it's going to be excluded.

Interesting, we say that night you can't see.

So what about with electricity? What about in a time where you can make it even at night? The Meshach Chachma discusses that at the beginning of Parashat Tetzaveh.

based on a sma in Choshe Mishpat, which discusses, what about, you know, candles? Hito discusses candles.

So even more, what about electricity and lights? Is it when the Gemara or when the Torah gives this drasha, is that more of a siman or a sibah? Is it a siman? Well, night is bad.