Jerusalem Talmud Yevamot 16.2

משנה: שְׁתֵּי יְבָמוֹת זוֹ אוֹמֶרֶת מֵת בַּעֲלִי וְזוֹ אוֹמֶרֶת מֵת בַּעֲלִי זוֹ אֲסוּרָה מִפְּנֵי בַּעֲלָהּ שֶּׁל זוֹ וְזוֹ אֲסוּרָה מִפְּנֵי בַּעֲלָהּ שֶׁל זוֹ. לָזוֹ עֵדִים וְלָזוֹ אֵין עֵדִים אֶת שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהּ עֵדִים אֲסוּרָה וְאֶת שֶׁאֵין לָהּ עֵדִים מוּתֶּרֶת. לָזוֹ בָנִים וְלָזוֹ אֵין בָּנִים אֶת שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהּ בָּנִים מוּתֶּרֶת וְאֶת שֶׁאֵין לָהּ בָּנִים אֲסוּרָה. נִתְיַיבְּמוּ וּמֵתוּ יְבָמִין אֲסוּרוֹת לְהִינָּשֵׂא. רִבִּי לָעְזָר אוֹמֵר הוֹאִיל וְהוּתְּרוּ לַיְּבָמִין הוּתְּרוּ לְכָל אָדָם.

MISHNAH: If each one of two sisters-in-law says “my husband died”, each one is forbidden because of the other’s husband. If one has witnesses but the other has no witnesses, the one who has witnesses is forbidden but the one who has no witnesses is permitted. If one has children but the other has no children, the one who has children is permitted but the one who has no children is forbidden. If they married in levirate but the levirs died, they are forbidden to remarry. Rebbi Eleazar said, since they were permitted to the levirs, they became permitted to any man.

הלכה: שְׁתֵּי יְבָמוֹת. לָזוֹ בָנִים [עֵדִים] וְלָזוֹ אֵין כְּלוּם. זוֹ נִיתֶּרֶת בְּבָנִים וְזוֹ נִיתֶּרֶת בְּעֵדֶיהָ.

HALAKHAH: Two sisters-in-law, of whom one has children and witnesses but the other has neither. The first one is permitted by children, the other one by her witnesses.

מַה טַעְמָא דְרִבִּי לָעְזָר. מִשּׁוּם שֶׁאֵינָהּ חֲשׁוּדָה לְקַלְקֵל [עַצְמָהּ וּלְקַלְקֵל צָרָתָהּ לְאַחַר זְמָן אוֹ מִשּׁוּם שֶׁאֶינָהּ חֲשׁוּדָה לְקַלְקֵל] צָרָתָהּ כָּל עִיקָּר. נִישְׁמְעִינָהּ מִן הָדָא. הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁהָלְכָה הִיא וּבַעֲלָהּ לִמְדִינַת הַיָּם. וּבָאתָה וְאָמְרָה. מֵת בַּעֲלִי. תִּינָּשֵׂא וְתִטּוֹל כְּתוּבָּה וְצָרָתָהּ אֲסוּרָה. וְסָבְרִין מֵימָר. חֲשׁוּדָה הִיא לְקַלְקֵל אֶת עַצְמָהּ כְּדֵי שֶּׁתְּקַלְקֵל צָרָתָהּ. וְלֵית רִבִּי לָעְזָר פַּלִּיג. הֲוֵי לֵית טַעֲמָא וְלֹא מִשּׁוּם שֶׁאֵינָהּ חֲשׁוּדָה לְקַלְקֵל צָרָתָהּ כָּל עִיקָּר. וְחָשׁ לוֹמַר שֶׁמָּא שִׁילַּח לָהּ גִּיטָּא מִמְּדִינַת הַיָּם. הַגַּע עַצְמָךְ שֶׁהָיָה כֹהֵן. אָמַר רִבִּי אַבָּא בֵּרִבִּי זְימִנָא. חֲשׁוּדָה הִיא לַעֲשׂוֹת כַמָּה חֲלָלִים כְּדֵי לַעֲשׂוֹת בְּנֵי צָרָתָהּ מַמְזֵרִין.

What is the reason of Rebbi Eleazar? Is it because she is not suspected to cause trouble [to herself in order later to cause trouble to her co-wife or because she is not suspected to cause any trouble] to her co-wife? Let us hear from the following: “If a woman went overseas with her husband and returns and says ‘my husband died’, she can remarry and collect her ketubah, but her co-wife remains forbidden.” We explain it, saying that she is suspected to cause trouble to herself in order to cause trouble to her co-wife, and Rebbi Eleazar does not disagree. It is impossible that the reason be that she is not suspected to cause any trouble to her co-wife. We could suspect that perhaps her husband sent her a bill of divorce from overseas. Think of it, what if her [next] husband was a Cohen? Rebbi Abba bar Rebbi Zemina said, she is suspected to produce several desecrated children in order to make bastards of her co-wife’s children.