Oraysa Chaburah | Yevamos 18b | Zikah After Death, “Achos Shelo Hayah,” and Two-Source Yevamos скачать в хорошем качестве

Oraysa Chaburah | Yevamos 18b | Zikah After Death, “Achos Shelo Hayah,” and Two-Source Yevamos

In this Oraysa Chaburah shiur on Yevamos 18b, Rabbi Segal wraps up the earlier discussion about zikah—the Torah-created bond when a woman is waiting for yibum or chalitzah—and how that bond affects marrying relatives. We sharpen a key distinction: while the yevamah is alive and waiting, the brother cannot marry her close relatives (like her mother), but the Gemara analyzes whether—after the yevamah dies—those relatives remain forbidden or the “potential relationship” disappears. The sugya also tracks which Amora is being quoted and how different versions of the teaching impact the halachic takeaway. From there we enter the next Mishnah and its core case of achos shelo hayah b’olamo (a brother who was not alive in the world at the same time). The shiur explores how far we go with an eye-opening idea: could a strong zikah make us treat the yevamah as if she was already “connected like a wife” to the surviving brother even before the younger brother is born—so that when the younger brother appears later, we say she already belonged to the older brother? The Gemara challenges that aggressively, testing whether zikah alone can be “stronger” than a case where there is already ma’amar (a stronger, rabbinic-level step toward yibum). Finally, we analyze a practical-looking setup of three brothers and multiple widows that creates a major conceptual problem: sometimes a yevamah can seem to be “coming from” two different men (“two-source yevamos”), which would undermine how yibum is supposed to work. The Gemara weighs whether we ever treat zikah like a quasi-marriage that would reframe the women as co-wives of one brother, or whether we avoid that approach—often because of gezeiros and appearances (what people might mistakenly conclude about when yibum is allowed). The shiur ends right as the Gemara prepares to prove that the driving concern here is linked to the recurring “two sisters” cases and the safeguards Chazal put in place. OraysaChaburah Yevamos 18b Gemara RabbiSegal zika zikah yibum chalitzah maamar arayos mother_in_law relatives after_death achos_shelo_hayah_beolamo three_brothers two_wives tzaros zikas_shimon zikas_reuven two_sources yevamah shtei_achim safek gezeirah maris_ayin