moi aussi: how can both the mother in law and daughter in law be potential yevamos? The mother in law had another child – the husband of the daughter in law. Based on what I learned in sem, the husband of the daughter in law died after the babies were born. Also, yibum cannot happen if the baby was born after death. However, if the mother in law is pregnant at the time of death, you have to wait to see if the baby will survive thirty days. If it does, chalitza needs to occur. If the mother in law is not pregnant at the time and there are no other siblings, how can the torah require yibum – that would make it impossible for the wife to ever remarry because she never knows if her deceased husband will suddenly have a “brother” making her marriage assur…
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