Torah and Jewish Idea > Torah and Jewish Idea
Is it permitted for a man to marry his dead wife's sister?
Lisa:
Aren't we talking about levirate marriages here?
Sveta:
Yes, levirate marriage or the yibbum. Also, over mamzerut and also the non-levirate scenario of if a widow who had children can marry her brother-in-law...
muman613:
--- Quote from: Lisa on June 30, 2013, 11:05:50 AM ---Aren't we talking about levirate marriages here?
--- End quote ---
No, Leverite marriage is when a man must marry the wife of his dead brother if he had not had children with her...
http://www.torah.org/learning/halacha-overview/chapter24.html
--- Quote ---24. Levirate Marriage and Chalitzah - Yibbum ve-Chalitzah
If a man dies childless his oldest brother (on the father's side) is commanded to marry his wife (even though ordinarily marrying a brother's wife is incest), as it says "If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no child the dead man's wife shall not marry an outsider; her brother-in-law shall take her for his wife".1 In principle the brother need not betroth her since she is automatically his, but the sages instituted betrothal in such cases. Once he has married her she is like his wife in all respects.a
If they do not want to marry they must perform the ceremony of chalitzah, as it says "And if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law she shall go up to the elders... and pull his shoe off his foot (chalitzah)... and say `Thus shall be done to the man who will not build his brother's house'".2 Afterwards she is like his divorced wife.b Until they marry or perform chalitzah she is forbidden to marry anyone else, as it says "The dead man's wife shall not marry an outsider".l,c
Sources:
1. Deut. 25:5; see Lev. 18:16 a. 1:1,15; 2:1,6
2. Deut. 25:7-9 b. 1:2,13; 2:10
c. 2:18
--- End quote ---
Sveta:
--- Quote from: muman613 on June 30, 2013, 02:31:01 PM ---No, Leverite marriage is when a man must marry the wife of his dead brother if he had not had children with her...
--- End quote ---
Oh yes, I got confused, we are discussing various terms. Yibbum was discussed but it is not the subject of the thread. The thread itself is about a man marrying his dead wife's sister.
So from a man marrying his dead wife's sister, to mamzerut to Yibbum and chalizah.
Tag-MehirTzedek:
Israeli heart- You wrote that it is "FORBIDDEN". I would like a source for that. Yes Halitza is to performed in a situation where the brother (of the man who did not have children) refuses to marry her. BUT in the case that she does have a child and the father dies I don't see why it would be FORBIDDEN for her to marry his brother. I wouldn't think it would be normal yet not forbidden and the children would most definitely not be mamzerim.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version