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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Only one brother-in-law need perform the ceremony. The old custom of the levirate marriage (Genesis 38:8) is thus modified in the Deuteronomic code, by permitting the surviving brother to refuse to marry his brother's widow, provided he submits to the ceremony of Halizah (see Levirate; Yebamah). In the Talmudic period the tendency against the original custom was intensified by apprehension that the brother-in-law might desire to marry his brother's widow for motives…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Only one brother-in-law need perform the ceremony. The old custom of the levirate marriage (Genesis 38:8) is thus modified in the Deuteronomic code, by permitting the surviving brother to refuse to marry his brother's widow, provided he submits to the ceremony of Halizah (see Levirate; Yebamah). In the Talmudic period the tendency against the original custom was intensified by apprehension that the brother-in-law might desire to marry his brother's widow for motives other than that of "establishing a name unto his brother." Therefore, many Talmudic and later rabbis preferred halizah to actual marriage (Yevamot 39b). Thus the ancient institution of the levirate marriage fell into disuse, so that at present Halizah is the general rule and marriage the rare exception (Shulkhan Arukh, Eben ha-'Ezer, 165, and commentaries).