If one refuse [hamemaeneth] a man, he is permitted to her kin and she is permitted to his kin, and he does not render her unfit for the priesthood. If he gave her a get, he is forbidden to her kin and she is forbidden to his kin and he renders her unfit for the priesthood. If he gave her a get and took her back, and she refused him and married another and was widowed or divorced, she is permitted to return to him. [Even though if he did not take her back and she married another out of divorce and was widowed, she is forbidden to the first, still, if he took her back and she refused him, this refusal shows her to be a minor and annuls the get, so that in taking her back, it is not as if he is taking back his divorcée after she wed another.] This is the rule: get after miun — she is forbidden to return to him; miun after get, she is permitted to return to him. [That is, even if he divorced her many times and he took her back, and she refused him — if she married the other out of a get, she is forbidden to return to him; if out of miun, she is permitted to return to him.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Yevamot
מותרת לחזור בו – even though that he did not restore her [as his wife] and she married another [man] as a result of divorce, and she became widowed [from the death of the second husband], she is prohibited to [marry again] the first, nevertheless, if he restored her [as his wife] and she refused/protested him, this refusal comes and reveals that she is a minor and her Jewish bill of divorce is annulled and there is nothing in her second return like restoring his divorced wife when she married another person.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
Introduction
This mishnah deals with various consequences of her refusing the marriage, especially on her subsequent marriages. Note that the mishnah does not talk about situations that are likely to arise. Rather by suggesting concrete cases, the mishnah teaches more abstract legal principles.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Yevamot
זה הכלל – meaning to say, even many times that he divorced her and restored her [as his wife] and she refused/protested him, if she married another man as a result of a Jewish bill of divorce, she is prohibited to return to him, but as a result/in the midst of a refusal/protest, she is permitted to return to him.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
If a minor made a declaration of refusal against a man, he is permitted [to marry] her relatives and she is permitted to [marry] his relatives, and he does not disqualify her from[marrying] a priest. The declaration of refusal annuls the marriage, making it as if it never happened. Therefore, neither he nor she is subsequently forbidden to marry each other’s relatives, as would be the case with divorce. Since she is not a divorcee, she may later marry a priest.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
If he gave her a get, he is forbidden to [marry] her relatives and she is forbidden to [marry] his relatives, and he also disqualifies her from [marrying] a priest. However, if he gave her a get, her status is that of a divorcee and the marriage was not annulled. Neither can marry each other’s relatives and she may not marry a priest. Although the marriage was only of rabbinic status, it is strong enough to create these prohibitions.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
If he gave her a get and remarried her and then she a made a declaration of refusal against him, and then she was married to another man and became a widow or was divorced, she is permitted to return to him. If he gives her a get, and then remarries her (this is permitted if she has not yet married someone else) and then she makes a declaration of refusal and then marries someone else, if this last person divorces her or dies, she may still return to her first husband. Although generally a man may not remarry his divorcee if she has been married in the interim (see Deuteronomy 24:1-4), in this case the declaration of refusal, which came after the divorce, cancels the get and places her in the category of one who has refused her husband and takes her out of the category of a divorcee.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
If she made a declaration of refusal against him and then he remarried her, and then he gave her a get and then she was married to another man and became a widow or was divorced, she is forbidden to return to him. However, in the opposite case, where she first makes a declaration of refusal, then returns to her husband and then is divorced, remarries, and is then divorced or widowed, she may not return to her first husband. Since the divorce was after the refusal, she is in the category of a divorcee.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yevamot
This is the general rule: if divorce followed meun she is forbidden to return to him, and if meun followed divorce she is permitted to return to him. This general sums up what was learned in the previous two sections.
