Closing · Unit 2
Torah Temimah: certain yibbum cases classified as “issur mitzvah” by reference to this verse.
English: Whatever is a “prohibition of a mitzvah”… performs chalitzah and is not taken in yibbum — because it is written “these are the commandments.”
Classification derasha.
The closing verse’s scope over Toras Kohanim labels certain prohibited unions as “issur mitzvah.”