<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chana Luntz</b> <<a href="mailto:chana@kolsassoon.org.uk">chana@kolsassoon.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
RYG writes in response to RMB:<br><br>><br>Well you seem to both be right. The Encyclopedia Talmudit brings as a<br>machlokus rishonim whether or not chalitza is a mitzva chiyuvis or not.<br>The Mordechai, inter alia, appears to agree that it is a mitzvah
<br>chiyuvis, and therefore even if neither yevam or yevama wants to do<br>chalitza, and the yevama has no intention of getting married, they<br>should be forced like other mitzvos aseh. On the other hand others<br>appear to hold that if she does not want to get married again, and he
<br>does not mind the zika remaining, there is no need to do chalitza as the<br>chalitza is only a heter for her to get married to somebody else, just<br>like shechita is a mitzvah to permit the animal to be eaten. See there
<br>(it is under section aleph, on the facing page to the beginning). The<br>Encyclopedia Talmudit does not (as is its way) provide any conclusion,<br>and it would seem from the sources quoted that the machlokus extends to
<br>the achronim, so why not to Avodah.<br><br><br><br>Regards<br><br>Chana<br><br></blockquote></div><br>FWIW, an elderly Yevama did Yibbum about 90 days after her late Husband's petira w/o necessarily wishing to remarry. I understood it to mean they construed it as a requirement,
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