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אמר רב יהודה אמר רב: זו דברי רבי מאיר, אבל חכמים אומרים: אין חליצת קטן כלום.
Rav Yehuda said that Rav said: This teaching of the Mishnah with regard to a minor is the statement of R' Meir, who maintains that such a ḥalitza has significance in that it disqualifies a subsequent levirate marriage, but it is insufficient to permit the woman to marry a stranger. But the Rabbis say: The ḥalitza of a male minor isn’t significant of anything, as she is permitted to one of the brothers in levirate marriage as one who performed no ḥalitza at all.
קטנה שחלצה וכו׳. אמר רב יהודה אמר רב: זו דברי רבי מאיר, דאמר: ״איש״ כתוב בפרשה, ומקשינן אשה לאיש.
§ It was taught in the Mishnah: If a female minor performed ḥalitza, she must perform ḥalitza a second time once she becomes an adult, and if she does not, her first ḥalitza is invalid. Rav Yehuda said that Rav said: This is the statement of R' Meir, who said: “Man” is written in the Torah portion about ḥalitza: “And if the man does not wish” (Deuteronomy 25:7), implying an adult must perform ḥalitza, and we juxtapose and compare a woman with a man, indicating that the woman must also be an adult at the time of ḥalitza.
אבל חכמים אומרים: ״איש״ כתיב בפרשה. אשה — בין גדולה בין קטנה.
But the Rabbis say: “Man” is written in this Torah portion, which indicates that an adult male must perform ḥalitza, but with respect to the woman who removes the shoe, since the term woman is not used to describe her, but rather the more general term yevama is written, as the continuation of the above-mentioned verse says: “To take his yevama” (Deuteronomy 25:9), she may be either an adult or a female minor.