Talmud for Yevamot 4:10

הַיְבָמָה לֹא תַחֲלֹץ וְלֹא תִתְיַבֵּם, עַד שֶׁיֶּשׁ לָהּ שְׁלֹשָׁה חֳדָשִׁים. וְכֵן כָּל שְׁאָר הַנָּשִׁים לֹא יִתְאָרְסוּ וְלֹא יִנָּשְׂאוּ, עַד שֶׁיִּהְיוּ לָהֶן שְׁלֹשָׁה חֳדָשִׁים. אֶחָד בְּתוּלוֹת וְאֶחָד בְּעוּלוֹת, אֶחָד גְּרוּשׁוֹת וְאֶחָד אַלְמָנוֹת, אֶחָד נְשׂוּאוֹת וְאֶחָד אֲרוּסוֹת. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, הַנְּשׂוּאוֹת יִתְאָרְסוּ, וְהָאֲרוּסוֹת יִנָּשְׂאוּ, חוּץ מִן הָאֲרוּסוֹת שֶׁבִּיהוּדָה, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁלִּבּוֹ גַּס בָּהּ. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, כָּל הַנָּשִׁים יִתְאָרְסוּ, חוּץ מִן הָאַלְמָנָה, מִפְּנֵי הָאִבּוּל:

A yevamah does not receive chalitzah and she is not taken in yibum until after three months. [The reason is given in the gemara, viz. (Deuteronomy 25:7): "If the man shall not desire to take his yevamah, then his yevamah shall go up to the gate" (for chalitzah). But if he does desire, he takes her in yibum — whence: All who are subject to yibum are subject to chalitzah.] Likewise, all other women are not betrothed and are not married until after three months — both virgins [(decreed because of non-virgins)] and betrothed, [(because of married). And this is the halachah. (These three months are ninety days, excluding the day on which her husband died or on which she was divorced, and excluding the day on which she was betrothed.)], non-virgins, divorcées, widows, married or betrothed. R. Yehudah says: The married ones may be betrothed, [its being forbidden (normally) only in order to discriminate between the seed of the first and the seed of the second — so that she not bear a child of doubtful status (Nine months to the first, or seven months to the second?) But this does not apply to those who were betrothed], and the betrothed ones may be married, [not having conceived from the first] — except for the betrothed women in Yehudah, their betrothed being familiar with them. [In Yehudah they would closet the bride with the groom before they were married, so that he would become accustomed to her and disport himself with her, and so that they would not be ashamed at the (first) conjugal union of mitzvah. We are, therefore, apprehensive that he might have lived with her at that time.] R. Yossi says: All women may become betrothed, except a widow, because of her mourning. [Because R. Yehudah does not distinguish between a widow and a divorcée, and permits a widow to become betrothed even within the thirty days of her mourning, R. Yossi comes to differ with him on this, and he forbids a widow to become betrothed within the thirty days of her mourning.]

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