Important Message Regarding This Lesson
The Daily Mitzvah schedule runs parallel to the daily study of 3 chapters of Maimonides' 14-volume code. There are instances when the Mitzvah is repeated a few days consecutively while the exploration of the same Mitzvah continues in the in-depth track.
Negative Commandment 356 (Digest)
Remarrying a Divorced Wife Who Remarried in the Interim
"Her first husband who sent her away may not marry her again"—Deuteronomy 24:4.
It is forbidden for a man to remarry a woman he divorced if she has remarried [and subsequently been divorced again or widowed] in the interim.
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> The 356th prohibition is that a man is forbidden from remarrying his divorced wife, if she was married to another man in the interim.;)
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement;) (exalted be He) [that if her second husband divorces her or dies,] "then her first husband who divorced her cannot remarry her."
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> The punishment for transgression of this prohibition is malkos (lashes).
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> The details of this mitzvah are explained in a number of passages in Yevamos.
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> Even if the second husband passed away or divorced her.
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> Deut. 24:4.
Positive Commandment 216 (Digest)
Levirate Marriage
"Her husband's brother shall be intimate with her"—Deuteronomy 25:5.
The brother of a married man who dies childless is commanded to marry his widowed sister-in-law. See [Positive Commandment 217 for the mechanism by which this mitzvah can be bypassed.]
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> The 216th mitzvah is that we are commanded that a man must marry his brother's wife, if [that brother] died without leaving children.;)
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement;) (exalted be He) "Her yavam [i.e., the surviving brother] must cohabit with her" [i.e., the sister-in-law].
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> The details of this mitzvah are found in the tractate devoted to this subject, tractate Yevamos.
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> The reason the Torah gives for this marriage is, "so that his [the deceased brother's] name will not be obliterated from Israel" (Deut. 25:6).
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> Deut. 25:5.