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When one brother performs chalitzah, does the prohibition of eishes ach return on the surviving woman? The shiur develops the fundamental machlokes between Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish over whether yibum creates a zikah (connection) to each brother individually or to the bayis as a collective unit. This distinction determines whether chalitzah by one brother affects the status of all the brothers.
This shiur analyzes a fundamental dispute between Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish in Yevamos 6b regarding the consequences of chalitzah on the status of the yevamah and tzarah. The Gemara (גמרא) asks whether after one brother performs chalitzah, there remains a prohibition of eishes ach with kares on the chalutza, on the tzarah, and on all the other brothers. Reish Lakish holds that there is kares—both on the brother who gave chalitzah regarding the chalutza, and on all brothers regarding the tzarah. Rabbi Yochanan disagrees, holding that there is no kares at all, neither on the chalutza nor on the tzarah, neither for the brother who performed chalitzah nor for the other brothers. The shiur explores the conceptual foundation of this dispute. One approach understands the machlokes to be about whether the prohibition of eishes ach can "return" once it has been removed. Reish Lakish holds that once the mitzvah (מצוה) of yibum creates a heter, the prohibition of eishes ach falls away; when chalitzah is performed and the heter is removed, the prohibition returns. Rabbi Yochanan rejects this—once eishes ach has fallen off, it cannot return. The shiur examines the pasuk "asher lo yivneh" which Rabbi Yochanan uses to reduce the prohibition from kares to a lav—a pasuk that appears to create a new issur rather than restore an old one.
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Yevamos 6b
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