Wenn einer (ein Yavam) von neun Jahren und eines Tages mit seiner Yevamah und dann mit ihrer Zara zusammenlebte, macht er (sie) für sich selbst ungeeignet. R. Shimon sagt: Er macht nicht untauglich. Wenn einer von neun Jahren und eines Tages mit seiner Yevamah zusammenlebte und starb, erhält sie Chalitzah und wird nicht in Yibum aufgenommen. [Denn sie hat die Verbindung von zwei Yavmin auf sich. Denn mit dem Zusammenleben seines Minderjährigen, das wie ein Ma'amar bei einem Erwachsenen ist, wird sie nicht von der Verbindung ihres ersten Sturzes befreit, und die Verbindung des zweiten fällt auf sie, von der wir erfahren haben (3: 9). : "Wenn die Verbindung von einem Yavam und nicht von zwei auf ihr liegt."] Wenn er eine Frau heiratete und starb [und er Brüder hat], ist sie [vom Yibum] befreit. Denn obwohl sein Zusammenleben "Zusammenleben" ist, ist sein Erwerb nicht "Erwerb", bis er zwei (Scham-) Haare mitbringt. Im Fall einer Yevamah haben die Rabbiner es jedoch (sein Zusammenleben) wie eine Ma'amar gemacht, da sie mit ihm verbunden ist.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Yevamot
בן ט' שנים ויום אחד שבא על בימתו ומת חולצת ולא מתיבמת – for she upon her the interdependence of a childless widow and her late brother’s brothers (i.e., the levirate relation) two brothers-in-law for the act of coition of this one, the younger (i.e., nine days and one-day old) is like the statement of levirate marriage from the older. She does not leave the levirate relation of the falling of the first [brother], and there falls upon her the levirate relationship through the falling of the second [brother] (see Rashi on the concluding Mishnah in Tractate Yevamot 96b). But it is taught in the Mishnah in Chapter Three (“Four Brothers”) (Tractate Yevamot, Mishnah 9, [referring to] the one who is subject to the levirate power of a single brother-in-law, and not the one who is subject to the levirate power of two brothers-in-law.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
Introduction
This mishnah continues to discuss the ramifications of an act of intercourse performed by a boy of the age of nine years and one day.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Yevamot
נשא אשה – [he married a woman] who is not his sister-in-law (i.e., the widow of the deceased childless brother), and he has brothers,
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
If a boy of the age of nine years and one day had intercourse with his yevamah and afterwards had intercourse with her rival wife, he has disqualified [both women for marriage] with himself. Rabbi Shimon says: he does not disqualify them. As we learned in yesterday’s mishnah, according to the rabbis an act of intercourse done by a boy nine years and one day old partially acquires a yevamah as a wife. It is akin to ma’amar, which also partially acquires the yevamah as a wife. Therefore, if the boy has intercourse first with one yevamah, and then with another one, who is also a yevamah, it is like giving ma’amar to two different yevamoth. In such a case, he may not marry either one. Rabbi Shimon holds that it is doubtful whether the sexual act of a boy nine years and one day old acquires a wife. Therefore, if it does make her his wife, then the first yevamah is his wife, and the intercourse with the second woman is inconsequential. If such an act does not acquire her as a wife, then neither did the intercourse with the second woman, and neither are prohibited to him. Therefore, according to Rabbi Shimon, when he reaches majority age he may marry either woman.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Yevamot
הרי זו פטורה – she is exempt, even though his sexual coition (i.e., of the brother who is nine years and one day old) is considered coition but his acquisition is not an acquisition at all until he brings forth two [pubic] hairs. But the widow of the childless dead brother, since she is dependent upon him, the Rabbis made her like a statement of betrothal.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
If a boy of the age of nine years and one day had intercourse with his yevamah and then died, she must undergo halitzah but may not be taken in yibbum. As stated above, intercourse with a boy nine years and one day old is legally equivalent to ma’amar. It therefore creates a tie to the yevamah, but does not totally remove the ties that she still has to her first husband. Should this boy now die, she has ties to two yevamim (two brothers, both of whom were her husband). As we learned in mishnah 3:9, when a woman has ties to two yevamim she must undergo halitzah, and may not have yibbum with another brother.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
If he had married [any other] woman and she subsequently died, she is exempt [from both halitzah and yibbum]. If a boy three years and one day old tries to marry a woman, and then he dies, she is not liable for yibbum or halitzah. This is because a boy this young cannot legally contract marriage. Throughout this chapter we have learned that there are some legal ramifications to his having sex with a woman. This section teaches that those ramifications are limited to the realm of yibbum. For regular marriage, there are no ramifications.
