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There are two Mishnayot on today’s daf that are almost identical. In both of them, the scenario opens with three brothers, two of whom are married to sisters, while the third brother is married to an unrelated woman.
The Gemara asks the obvious question – why do we need both of these Mishnayot? Aren’t the cases so similar that there is no need to repeat the rule a second time?
The Gemara’s response is that we really do not need both, and that the rule of the second Mishna can be understood from the first.
Nevertheless, once it was taught, Mishna lo zaza mimkoma – the Mishna is not moved from its place.
We continue our exploration of levirate marriage, today regarding the conversos especially the work of the history Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi.