Ki Seitzei 25:05 · unit 13

TT #653 · Parashas Ki Seitzei · Seventh Aliyah · Passuk 25:05

The Complete Passuk

כִּי־יֵשְׁב֨וּ אַחִ֜ים יַחְדָּ֗ו וּמֵ֨ת אַחַ֤ד מֵהֶם֙ וּבֵ֣ן אֵֽין־ל֔וֹ לֹֽא־תִהְיֶ֧ה אֵֽשֶׁת־הַמֵּ֛ת הַח֖וּצָה לְאִ֣ישׁ זָ֑ר יְבָמָהּ֙ יָבֹ֣א עָלֶ֔יהָ וּלְקָחָ֥הּ ל֛וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֖ה וְיִבְּמָֽהּ׃

When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be outside to a strange man; her husband’s brother shall come upon her and take her to himself as a wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother for her.

Chabad / Judaica Press

Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to Sifrei / Yevamot.

TT lemma: לֹא תִהְיֶה אֵשֶׁת הַמֵּת הַחוּצָה.

Sefaria

Core Text of Chazal

אֵשֶׁת אֶחָד מִתְיַבֶּמֶת וְלֹא אֵשֶׁת שְׁנַיִם.

English: The wife of one (brother) is subject to yibbum, but not the wife of two.

On the daf / in context: When a woman is under zikah to two yavams simultaneously (complex cases of successive deaths), the verse’s singular language excludes yibbum.

Type of Learning

Mi’ut from the singular “the wife of the dead.”

What Is Learned

A woman subject to the zikah of two brothers at once is not taken in yibbum.