תלמוד על יבמות 10:1

Not only according to the current Mishnah that a single witness can permit her⁸Mishnaiot 16:7–8, a change in practice dated to the times of Trajan or Hadrian. In order to minimize the cases in which a woman is prevented from remarrying if the documentation of her husband’s death cannot be completed, the standards of proof have been extremely relaxed., but even according to the earlier Mishnah that a single witness cannot permit her, she permits herself. What is the difference between herself and a single witness? A single witness is suspected to want to cause trouble to her; she is not suspected to want to cause trouble to herself⁹Since Mishnah 10:1 requires her to satisfy herself that her husband is really dead. The Babli agrees, 93b..

Rebbi Jeremiah said, the promiscuous levitic woman still eats tithe³⁷Tithe in the hands of a Levite is totally profane; its consumption does not require any status of holiness.. One has stated thus: If a levitic woman was kidnapped³⁸And presumed raped. or if any one barred for her³⁹Whom she could not legally marry. copulated with her, he⁴⁰The male illegally having sex with her. In all these cases, the daughter of a Cohen would be disabled for heave. is not empowered to disable her. One does not suspect even a hint of disability for Levites who were compromised from their mother’s side⁴¹Whose father was a Levite or Cohen of questionable standing.. But did we not state⁴²In Mishnah 1.: “the daughter of a Levite from tithe”? Rebbi Yose said, explain it that an Israel came upon her and she bore him a son⁴³The status of the mother always follows that of her child; the mother of an Israel is an Israel woman. Cf. Halakhot 7:3–4..