Sefer HaMitzvos

מצות לא תעשה שנ״ו · מצות עשה רט״ז

Day 82 of 339

Negative Mitzvah 356

It is forbidden to remarry one's divorced wife who married and divorced a second time

Deuteronomy 24:4 "Then her former (first) husband who sent her away may not take her again to be his wife"

A man who divorces his wife is forbidden to remarry her if she married another man and then, was divorced a second time or was widowed from her second husband.

(If she did not marry another man, he is permitted to marry her again.)

Positive Mitzvah 216

"Yibum"

Deuteronomy 25:5 "Her husband's brother shall marry her"

If a man dies childless, one of his brothers is obligated to marry his wife (see Negative Mitzvah 357).