Mesorat%20hashas for Eduyot 4:8

בֵּית שַׁמַּאי מַתִּירִין אֶת הַצָּרוֹת לָאַחִים, וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹסְרִין. חָלְצוּ, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי פּוֹסְלִין מִן הַכְּהֻנָּה, וּבֵית הִלֵּל מַכְשִׁירִין. נִתְיַבְּמוּ, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי מַכְשִׁירִין, וּבֵית הִלֵּל פּוֹסְלִין. וְאַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאֵלּוּ פוֹסְלִין וְאֵלּוּ מַכְשִׁירִין, לֹא נִמְנְעוּ בֵית שַׁמַּאי מִלִּשָּׂא נָשִׁים מִבֵּית הִלֵּל, וְלֹא בֵית הִלֵּל מִלִּשָּׂא נָשִׁים מִבֵּית שַׁמָּאי. וְכָל הַטָּהֳרוֹת וְהַטֻּמְאוֹת שֶׁהָיוּ אֵלּוּ מְטַהֲרִין וְאֵלּוּ מְטַמְּאִין, לֹא נִמְנְעוּ לִהְיוֹת עוֹשִׂים טָהֳרוֹת אֵלּוּ עַל גַּב אֵלּוּ:

Beth Shammai permit tzaroth (co-wives) to brothers. [They permit the tzarah of an ervah to be taken in yibum (levirate marriage) by one's brother, not expounding (Leviticus 18:8): "And a woman together with her sister you shall not take to be rivals (litzror)," which implies: take neither her, her tzarah, nor the tzarah of her tzarah.] And Beth Hillel forbid them. If they [the tzaroth] received chalitzah (release from yibum) [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]. And even though 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 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.] And in all those instances where these ruled clean and the others unclean, they would not keep from observing ritual cleanliness among each other. [i.e., they would lend their vessels to each other.]

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