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למאי הלכתא? לגריעותא: מה בכור אינו נוטל בראוי כבמוחזק — אף האי אינו נוטל בראוי כבמוחזק.
With regard to what halakha was that word written in the Torah? This is in order to limit the inheritance. Just as a firstborn does not take in inheritance property due as he does property possessed, but instead receives a double inheritance only from that property already in actual possession of their father, so too, this one who enters levirate marriage, whether firstborn or younger, does not take in inheritance property due as he does property possessed.
מתני׳ הנטען על השפחה ונשתחררה, או על הגויה ונתגיירה — הרי זה לא יכנוס. ואם כנס — אין מוציאין מידו. הנטען על אשת איש והוציאוה מתחת ידו, אף על פי שכנס — יוציא.
Mishnah: One suspected by others of having sex with a Canaanite female slave and she was later set free, or one suspected of sex with a non-Jew woman and she subsequently converted, may not marry that woman, since this will strengthen the suspicions against him. But if he did marry her, they, the judges of the court, do not remove her from him, i.e., they do not require him to divorce her. With regard to one who is suspected of illicit sex with a married woman and they, the judges of the court, removed her from her husband, i.e., required them to divorce due to this, even if the man suspected of the illicit sex subsequently married her, he must divorce her.
גמ׳ הא גיורת מיהא הויא. ורמינהי: אחד איש שנתגייר לשום אשה, ואחד אשה שנתגיירה לשום איש, וכן מי שנתגייר לשום שולחן מלכים, לשום עבדי שלמה — אינן גרים, דברי רבי נחמיה.
Talmud: The Mishnah teaches that one who is suspected of sex with a non-Jew woman who later converted may never marry her. This implies that she is, however, a convert, although it appears that she converted only in order that he might marry her. The Talmud raises a contradiction from a baraita: Both a man who converted for the sake of a woman and a woman who converted for the sake of a man, and similarly, one who converted for the sake of the king’s table, so that he could serve in a prestigious capacity, or for the sake of Solomon’s servants, who were also considered prestigious, in all of these cases they are not converts; this is the statement of R' Neḥemya.