A married woman acquires herself back through the death of her husband. Why?Maybe the husband caused the prohibition, and he also removed it? No, because she is still forbidden to marry his son from the previous marriage or his father.
Or maybe a widow is forbidden to marry the High Priest, so she must be allowed to marry everyone else? No, perhaps she would still be transgressing a positive commandment.
Maybe when Jewish soldiers went to war, "And whichever man betrothed a wife and did not yet take her, let him return, lest he dies in battle and another man takes her" - is valid proof!
Art: Armand Carrel On His Deathbed by Ary Scheffer
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