Reply To: Who wants to be a Tzadaikes like Rus?

DY -Sorry I didn’t get back sooner – I was busy.

“The Tur does not say one word about more than one yevama, because the beraisa was not only talking in such a case.”

The Tur is talking about the case whatever the Braisa is -so it doesn’t have to specify.

“I completely fail to follow your train of thought.

Likewise.”

I now understand how you are learning, but let us analyze the Gemorah on Mem-Daled and see how your P’shat can’t be P’shat.

You say the Gemorrah asked from the Braisa on the Mishna-

“The gemara quoted it to ask a kasha. The beraisa was talking about regular yibum.”

Ok, so acc. to you what is the Kasha? The Mishna says that a person can marry more than one Yevama and the Braisa says you shouldn’t marry age difference (by one Yevama or more)(And I guess Kettoh means fighting because of age)? This isn’t a kasha because you can just say the Mishna was talking about a case where they were all the same age, so no problem.

The way I’m learning is like this -the Braisa and Mishna are all talking about marrying more than Yevama. So how could the Mishna say you can marry more than one, the Braisa says when you have more than one Yevama you look to get rid of the others by looking for age difference or any difference? With my P’shat there can only be one answer -that the Mishna is talking about a rich man and he can afford to marry a few. You can’t give the simple answer that the Mishna was talking about no age difference because that isn’t the point of the Braisa. The point of the Braisa was – get rid of as many as you can and only marry one (because the Yovom can’t afford it acc. to the Maskonoh).

So now you see why I’m learning in regular marriage or regular Yibum there is no problem marrying age difference. (At least, you don’t have any Rayah from this Gemorrah that there is.) It was only a problem because we needed to help this guy get out from marrying more than one Yevama because he couldn’t afford it.