Chalitzah with a Court, Witnesses and a Bill
Please note that "Chalitzah" refers to the rite which frees a man and woman from their obligation to perform levirate marriage.
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Requiring a Court
How many judges: Yevamot 107b, Sanhedrin 2a
Retroactively, if it was done alone: Yevamot 104a, 105b
Retroactively, if it was done with two Judges: Yevamot 105b
Necessary Number of Judges: Yevamot 101a, 101b, 104b
Role of the Judges: Yevamot 101a
Extra Judges for publicity: Yevamot 101b
Necessary Level of Expertise of Judges: Yevamot 101a
Whether the judges may be Converts: Kiddushin 14a
Legal Aspect of Chalitzah
Link to the Closure of a Case or the Beginning of a Case: Yevamot 104a
Nighttime: Yevamot 104a
Requiring a Set Place of Meeting for the Court: Yevamot 101b
A Blind person as a Judge: Yevamot 101a
A Convert as a Judge: Yevamot 101b, 102a
Active Role of the Court
Court must read the Verses, Without a Proxy: Yevamot 101b
Pretending to bribe the brother-in-law, to fool him into a mistaken Chalitzah: Yevamot 106a; Ketuvot 74a
If Court doesn't recognize the Parties: Yevamot 106a
Advising Brother-in-Law to do Chalitzah, where incompatible: Yevamot 101b, 106b
The Court Must See the Spit: Yevamot 101b, 106b
Court announcing "Chalutz HaNaal [The Shoe has ben Removed]": Yevamot (101b?), 106b
