Halakhah for Yevamot 1:4

בֵּית שַׁמַּאי מַתִּירִין הַצָּרוֹת לָאַחִים, וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹסְרִים. חָלְצוּ, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי פּוֹסְלִין מִן הַכְּהֻנָּה, וּבֵית הִלֵּל מַכְשִׁירִים. נִתְיַבְּמוּ, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי מַכְשִׁירִים, וּבֵית הִלֵּל פּוֹסְלִין. אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֵלּוּ אוֹסְרִין וְאֵלּוּ מַתִּירִין, אֵלּוּ פּוֹסְלִין וְאֵלּוּ מַכְשִׁירִין, לֹא נִמְנְעוּ בֵּית שַׁמַּאי מִלִּשָּׂא נָשִׁים מִבֵּית הִלֵּל, וְלֹא בֵית הִלֵּל מִבֵּית שַׁמַּאי. כָּל הַטָּהֳרוֹת וְהַטֻּמְאוֹת שֶׁהָיוּ אֵלּוּ מְטַהֲרִין וְאֵלּוּ מְטַמְּאִין, לֹא נִמְנְעוּ עוֹשִׂין טָהֳרוֹת אֵלּוּ עַל גַּבֵּי אֵלּוּ:

Beth Shammai permit tzaroth to brothers. [They permit the tzarah of an ervah to be taken in yibum by one's brother, not expounding "litzror" (see above)], and Beth Hillel forbid them. If they [the tzaroth] received chalitzah [ from the brothers], Beth Shammai regard them [the tzaroth] as unfit for (marriage within) the priesthood, [their chalitzah being valid (and a chalutzah being forbidden to a Cohein)], and Beth Hillel regard them as fit, [their chalitzah having been unnecessary, and akin to chalitzah from a gentile.] If they were taken in yibum [by the brothers], Beth Shammai regard them as fit [for marriage to Cohanim if they are widowed from their husbands], and Beth Hillel as unfit, [living with those forbidden to them rendering them "zonah," and thus forbidden to a Cohein]. Although these forbid, and these permit; these regard as unfit and these as fit, Beth Shammai did not keep from marrying women from Beth Hillel, and Beth Hillel did not keep from marrying women from Beth Shammai. [And even though the children of the tzaroth who were taken in yibum according to the ruling of Beth Shammai are mamzerim according to Beth Hillel, (the interdict against a brother's wife applying to them, the punishment for transgression being kareth, and the children born of a kareth union being mamzerim), still, Beth Hillel did not keep from marrying women from Beth Shammai; for they would apprise them which came from tzaroth and they would avoid them.] In all those instances where these ruled clean and the others unclean, they did not keep from observing ritual cleanliness among each other. [i.e., They would lend their vessels to each other. (The gemara asks why Beth Shammai's permitting the tzaroth to the brothers and Beth Hillel's forbidding them should not come under (Deuteronomy 14:1): "Lo tithgodedu" — you shall not form opposing factions ("agudoth, agudoth") — and it answers that "lo tithgodedu" would apply to one beth-din in one city, where half the judges ruled according to Beth Shammai, and half according to Beth Hillel — but not to two batei-din in one city, and certainly not to two batei-din in two cities.]

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