If a yavam-minor cohabited with a yevamah-minor, they are to "grow up" with each other [and he cannot divorce her until he comes of age, for the get of a minor is not a get.] If he cohabited with a yevamah-adult, she is to wait until he comes of age. If the yevamah said in the midst of thirty days [after the yavam took her]: I was not cohabited with, [and the yavam says: I did cohabit with you, and a get suffices for you], he is compelled to give her chalitzah. [For she is believed. For until thirty days one can restrain himself and not cohabit.] After thirty days, he is requested to give her chalitzah. [After thirty days he is believed; for a man cannot restrain himself from cohabiting for more than thirty days. However, she is not thereby permitted, having rendered herself forbidden and in need of chalitzah, so that he is requested to give her chalitzah. But he is not compelled, for he says that he did cohabit with her. As to his being compelled to give chalitzah in the midst of thirty days and being requested to give chalitzah after thirty days, and not being compelled and requested to take her in yibum — the gemara posits this to be an instance where she presents a get; for having given a get to his linked one, she is rendered unfit to him. But she still requires chalitzah to permit her to others. And if (after thirty days) she says: I was cohabited with, and he says: I did not cohabit with her, we pay no heed to his word, and she does not require chalitzah.] And when he concedes (that he did not cohabit with her), even after twelve months, he is compelled to give her chalitzah.
Bartenura on Mishnah Yevamot
ר' אליעזר אומר בכולן מלמדין – And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Eliezer.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
Introduction
This mishnah continues the subject discussed in the previous two mishnayoth.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
[If one was] of age and the other a minor, and the yavam had intercourse with the one who was of age, and then he had intercourse with the minor, or a brother of his had intercourse with the minor, he does not disqualify the elder for him. In this case one of the widows was of majority age and one was a minor. If the yavam has intercourse (yibbum) with the one who is of age she is fully acquired to him as a wife. If he or his brother subsequently have intercourse with the other widow the act is forbidden (for she was his brother’s wife) but does not effect the status of the one who already had yibbum.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
If the yavam had intercourse with the minor, and then he also had intercourse with the one who was of age, or a brother of his had intercourse with the one who was of age, he disqualifies the minor [for him]. If the yavam first had intercourse with the minor, there is a doubt whether or not she is acquired to him. If he then has intercourse with the one who is of majority age, that act would be an act of yibbum if the act of intercourse with the minor did not acquire her. Since the older widow may be his wife through yibbum (or his brother’s wife) he is forbidden to remain married to the minor widow. He also cannot be with the older widow, lest the minor was successfully acquired through yibbum.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
Rabbi Elazar says: the minor is to be instructed to make a declaration of refusal. Rabbi Elazar states that in such a case we should instruct the younger widow to make a declaration of refusal, thereby annulling the marriage. This would allow yibbum with the widow of majority age.
