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5)
(a) What does the Mishnah require a person to do, if he betrothed one of two women and he doesn't know which one he betrothed?
(b) Why can he not divorce one of them and remain with the other one?
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6)
(a) In the event that he dies, leaving behind one brother, that brother must perform Chalitzah with both women. What happens if he leaves behind two brothers?
(b) Why is this permitted?
(c) What if they both perform Yibum?
(d) Why is that?
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7)
(a) What happens if two men betrothed two sisters, and neither can remember which one he betrothed?
(b) If each one has a brother and they both die, then each brother performs Chalitzah with each of the Yevamos. What happens (l'Chatchilah) if one of them has one brother and the other, two?
(c) Why can the one brother not perform Yibum with the one Yevamah ...
1. ... before the other brother has performed Chalitzah with the other one?
2. ... after performing Chalitzah with the other one?
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8)
(a) What will be the Din if each of the deceased men leaves behind two brothers? Why is that?
(b) Why, if the first pair of brothers performed Chalitzah on the two women, can the second pair not just perform Yibum, one with each woman?
(c) Then what should they do?
(d) Why, in this case and in the previous cases where there are two brothers, if both brothers performed Yibum with one of the Yevamos, are they permitted to retain them? Why do we not obligate them to divorce them at once?
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9)
(a) We try to prove from our Mishnah that 'Kidushin she'Ein Mesurin l'Bi'ah' are not valid. What are 'Kidushin she'Ein Mesurin l'Bi'ah'?
(b) How do we ...
1. ... try to prove it?
2. ... refute the proof
(c) How is this answer inherent in the Lashon of our Mishnah?
(d) What is the Tana then coming to teach us? Is it not obvious that someone who betrothed one of two women, and he doesn't know which one he betrothed, must give each woman a Get?
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10)
(a) The second case, where two men betrothed two sisters, teaches us two things that we did not know from the first one. One of them is that we do not decree, forbidding the second of the two brothers to perform Yibum at all, because of the single brother (who might follow suite). What is the other Chidush?
(b) The third case, when each of the two deceased men has two brothers, and the first of each pair performs Chalitzah and the second, Yibum, does not seem to be teaching us anything new. What is the Tana in fact, coming to teach us?
(c) Why is there more reason to decree in this case than in the previous one (when one of the deceased men has only one brother)?
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11)
(a) What does the Mishnah in Arba'ah Achim say about a case where two out of four brothers who are married to two sisters, die? What must the two remaining brothers do?
(b) What if they transgress and perform Yibum instead of Chalitzah?
(c) Why are they forbidden to remain with their Yevamos, whereas in the last case in our Mishnah, when each of the two brothers performed Yibum without waiting for his brother to perform Chalitzah, they are permitted to remain married to their Yevamos? What is the difference between the two cases if we hold ...
1. ... 'Yesh Zikah'?
2. ... 'Ein Zikah'?
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12)
(a) Shilo quoted a Beraisa that when, in the previous case, the Tana permits the second pair who performed Yibum to remain with their Yevamos, that applies even to Kohanim, despite the fact that the two women are Safek Chalutzos. Why is that?
(b) What does the Tana of the Beraisa learn from the Pasuk in Emor "v'Ishah Gerushah m'Ishah Lo Yikachu"?
(c) Then how can we refer to a Chalutzah l'Kohen as an Isur d'Rabanan?
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