[14a] Yevamah

Question 1

How do we know that a yevamah is acquired through biah?

Answer 1

Based on the passuk of “Yevamah yavo aleha, ulekacha lo le’isha” [Devarim 25]

Kiddushin 14a

Question 2

How do we know that other methods of kiddushin (apart from biah) do NOT work for yevamah?

Answer 2

B/c passuk says “ve’yibmah” (implies biah, and it’s repeated to say me’akev -Rashi)

Kiddushin 14b

Question 3

How do we know yevamah acquires herself through chalitzah?

Answer 3

From the passuk “ve’nikra shmo be’Yisrael Beit Chalutz Ha’na’al” [Devarim 25]

Kiddushin 14a

Question 4

What else do we learn from “venikra shemo be’Yisrael” (apart from yevamah being muttar to others after chalitza)?

Answer 4

That the Beit Din cannot be of gerim [Bach]

Kiddushin 14a

Question 5

What does venikra in the passuk about chalitza teach us?

Answer 5

That the people should call out “chalutz ha’na’al, chalutz ha’na’al”

Question 6

What happens if the father of one of the judges was a ger? Can he sit on the beit din for chalitza?

Answer 6

No

וְהַחֲלִיצָה בַּיּוֹם וְלֹא בַּלַּיְלָה. וּבִפְנֵי שְׁלֹשָׁה שֶׁיּוֹדְעִין לְהַקְרוֹת. וְאִם אֶחָד מִן הַשְּׁלֹשָׁה גֵּר פָּסוּל. וַאֲפִלּוּ הָיָה אָבִיו גֵּר וְאִמּוֹ יִשְׂרְאֵלִית לֹא תַּחֲלֹץ עַד שֶׁיִּהְיֶה אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל. וּמִצְוָתָהּ בַּחֲמִשָּׁה כְּדֵי לְפַרְסֵם הַדָּבָר. וְאוֹתָן הַשְּׁנַיִם אֲפִלּוּ הָיוּ עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ:

Hilchot Yibum 4:5