He cannot say to her, `behold your Kethubah lies on the table`, but all his property is pledged to her Kethubah. So, too, a man may not say to his wife, behold your Kethubah lies on the table, but all his property is pledged to her Kethubah. If he divorced her she is entitled only to her Kethubah. If he subsequently remarried her she is [to enjoy the same rights as] all other wives, and is entitled only to her Kethubah. |
כתובות 8.8 |
If a husband gives to his wife a written undertaking, `I have no claim
whatsoever upon your estates`, he may nevertheless enjoy its usufruct
during her lifetime and, when she dies, he is her heir. If so, what was
his object in giving her the written undertaking, `I have no claim
whatsoever upon your estates`? That if she sold them or gave them away
her act might be valid. If he wrote, `I have no claim whatsoever upon
your estates and upon their produce, he may not enjoy their usufruct
during her lifetime but, when she dies, he is her heir. R. Judah ruled:
He may in all cases enjoy the yield of the produce unless he wrote out
for her [the following undertaking]: `I have no claim whatsoever upon
your estates and upon their produce and the produce of their produce and
so on without end. |
כתובות 9.1 |
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