## Ketubot Daf 54b

###### Ketubot 54b:1
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״אַרְבַּע מְאָה זוּזֵי מִן חַמְרָא לִבְרַת״. אִיַּיקַּר חַמְרָא. אָמַר רַב יוֹסֵף: רַוְוחָא לְיַתְמֵי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Four hundred dinars of** this **wine** you should give **to** my **daughter,** and **the wine** subsequently **appreciated** in value, so that some money remained. **Rav Yosef said:** The **gain** goes **to the** male **orphans,** i.e., they are entitled to the leftover sum.


###### Ketubot 54b:2
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קָרִיבֵיהּ דְּרַבִּי יוֹחָנָן הֲוָה לְהוּ אִיתַּת אַבָּא דַּהֲוָה קָמַפְסְדָה מְזוֹנֵי. אֲתוֹ לְקַמֵּיהּ דְּרַבִּי יוֹחָנָן. אֲמַר לְהוּ: אֵיזִילוּ וֶאֱמַרוּ לֵיהּ לַאֲבוּכוֹן דִּנְיַיחֵד לַהּ אַרְעָא לִמְזוֹנַהּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara relates: **The relatives of Rabbi Yoḥanan had a wife of** their **father who would diminish** his resources by spending wastefully on her **sustenance. They came before Rabbi Yoḥanan** to ask his advice. **He said to them: Go and say to your father that he should set aside** a certain portion of **land for her sustenance.** If she agrees to accept this land for her sustenance she has thereby relinquished her claim to the rest of the estate.


###### Ketubot 54b:3
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אֲתוֹ לְקַמֵּיהּ דְּרֵישׁ לָקִישׁ, אֲמַר לְהוּ: כׇּל שֶׁכֵּן שֶׁרִיבָּה לָהּ מְזוֹנוֹת. אֲמַרוּ לֵיהּ: וְהָא רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן לָא אָמַר הָכִי! אֲמַר לְהוּ: זִילוּ הַבוּ לַהּ. וְאִי לָא, מַפֵּיקְנָא לְכוּ רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן מֵאוּנַּיְיכוּ. אֲתוֹ לְקַמֵּיהּ דְּרַבִּי יוֹחָנָן, אֲמַר לְהוּ: מָה אֶעֱשֶׂה? שֶׁכְּנֶגְדִּי חָלוּק עָלַי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
After their father died, **they came before Reish Lakish** for his ruling, and he **said to them: All the more so, he has increased** the sources of **sustenance** available **to her.** In other words, they are still obligated to support her from their father’s estate according to the lifestyle she is accustomed to living, and if they do not, she may use the field to supplement what they give her. **They said to him: But Rabbi Yoḥanan did not say so. He said to them: Go** and **give her** all she requires, **and if not, I will remove for you Rabbi Yoḥanan from your ears,** i.e., I will treat you so harshly that you will forget Rabbi Yoḥanan’s ruling. **They approached Rabbi Yoḥanan** to complain, but **he said to them: What can I do?** I cannot impose my opinion, **as** a man **equal to me disagrees with me.**


###### Ketubot 54b:4
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אָמַר רַבִּי אֲבָהוּ: לְדִידִי מִפָּרְשָׁא לִי מִינֵּיהּ דְּרַבִּי יוֹחָנָן. אָמַר ״לִמְזוֹנוֹת״ — רִיבָּה לָהּ מְזוֹנוֹת. אָמַר ״בִּמְזוֹנוֹת״ — קָצַץ לָהּ מְזוֹנוֹת.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rabbi Abbahu said:** This matter **was explained to me personally by Rabbi Yoḥanan.** All depends on the husband’s description of the land. If **he said** that he is giving her land **for** her **sustenance, he has** thereby **increased** the sources of **sustenance** available **to her.** He will continue to provide her sustenance, but if that amount is insufficient he has also set aside an area of land specifically for that purpose. However, if **he said** to her that he is designating the land **as** her **sustenance, he has** thereby **fixed** this plot of land as the only source of **sustenance** available **to her,** and she can take no more.


###### Ketubot 54b:5
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**הֲדַרַן עֲלָךְ נַעֲרָה**


###### Ketubot 54b:6
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**אַף עַל פִּי** שֶׁאָמְרוּ בְּתוּלָה גּוֹבָה מָאתַיִם וְאַלְמָנָה מָנֶה, אִם רָצָה לְהוֹסִיף אֲפִילּוּ מֵאָה מָנֶה — יוֹסִיף. נִתְאַרְמְלָה אוֹ נִתְגָּרְשָׁה, בֵּין מִן הָאֵרוּסִין בֵּין מִן הַנִּשּׂוּאִין — גּוֹבָה אֶת הַכֹּל. רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן עֲזַרְיָה אוֹמֵר: מִן הַנִּשּׂוּאִין — גּוֹבָה אֶת הַכֹּל, מִן הָאֵירוּסִין — בְּתוּלָה גּוֹבָה מָאתַיִם וְאַלְמָנָה מָנֶה, שֶׁלֹּא כָּתַב לָהּ אֶלָּא עַל מְנָת לְכוֹנְסָהּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** **Although they said** as a principle that **a virgin collects two hundred** dinars as payment for her marriage contract **and** that **a widow** collects **one hundred dinars, if** the husband **wishes to add even** an additional **ten thousand** dinars, **he may add** it. If **she is** then **widowed or divorced, whether from betrothal** or **whether from marriage, she collects the entire** amount, including the additional sum. **Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya says:** If she is widowed or divorced **from marriage, she collects the total** amount, but if she is widowed or divorced **from betrothal, a virgin collects two hundred** dinars **and a widow one hundred** dinars. This is **because he wrote** the additional amount **for her** in the marriage contract **only in order to marry her.**


###### Ketubot 54b:7
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רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר: אִם רָצָה כּוֹתֵב לִבְתוּלָה שְׁטָר שֶׁל מָאתַיִם, וְהִיא כּוֹתֶבֶת ״הִתְקַבַּלְתִּי מִמְּךָ מָנֶה״, וּלְאַלְמָנָה מָנֶה וְהִיא כּוֹתֶבֶת ״הִתְקַבַּלְתִּי מִמְּךָ חֲמִשִּׁים זוּז״. רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר: כׇּל הַפּוֹחֵת לִבְתוּלָה מִמָּאתַיִם וּלְאַלְמָנָה מִמָּנֶה — הֲרֵי זוֹ בְּעִילַת זְנוּת.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rabbi Yehuda says** a related *halakha* with regard to the marriage contract: **If he wishes, he may write for a virgin a document for two hundred** dinars as is fitting for her, **and she may** then **write** a receipt stating: **I received one hundred dinars from you.** Even though she has not actually received the money, the receipt serves as a means for her to waive half of the amount due to her for her marriage contract. According to Rabbi Yehuda, the financial commitment in the marriage contract is a right due to the wife, which she may waive if she chooses to do so. **And** similarly, **for a widow** he may write **one hundred dinars** in the contract **and she may write** a receipt stating: **I received from you fifty dinars.** However, **Rabbi Meir says:** It is prohibited to do this, as **anyone who reduces** the amount of the marriage contract to less than **than two hundred** dinars **for a virgin or one hundred dinars for a widow, this** marital relationship amounts to **licentious sexual relations** because it is as if he did not write any marriage contract at all.


###### Ketubot 54b:8
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**גְּמָ׳** פְּשִׁיטָא? מַהוּ דְּתֵימָא: קִיצּוּתָא עֲבַדוּ רַבָּנַן שֶׁלֹּא לְבַיֵּישׁ אֶת מִי שֶׁאֵין לוֹ, קָא מַשְׁמַע לַן.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** The mishna states that if he wishes to add to the obligation in the marriage contract, he may do so. The Gemara asks: **Isn’t** it **obvious** that if he wishes to add he may do so? The Gemara explains: **Lest you say** that **the Sages instituted a fixed** ceiling on the amount one may designate in the marriage contract, in order **not to embarrass one who does not have** sufficient funds, the mishna therefore **teaches us** that the Sages were not specific about this. If he wishes to add to the amount, he may do so.


###### Ketubot 54b:9
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אִם רָצָה לְהוֹסִיף כּוּ׳. ״רָצָה לִכְתּוֹב לָהּ״ לָא קָתָנֵי, אֶלָּא ״רָצָה לְהוֹסִיף״. מְסַיַּיע לֵיהּ לְרַבִּי אַיְבוּ אָמַר רַבִּי יַנַּאי. דְּאָמַר רַבִּי אַיְבוּ אָמַר רַבִּי יַנַּאי: תְּנַאי כְּתוּבָּה כִּכְתוּבָּה דָּמֵי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ The mishna states that **if he wishes to add** even ten thousand dinars to the marriage contract, he may do so. The Gemara comments: **It does not teach: He wishes to write for her, rather: He wishes to add.** This language indicates that the additional sum he wrote is added to the marriage contract itself, as opposed to being an independent obligation. **This supports** the opinion of **Rabbi Aivu,** who said what **Rabbi Yannai said, as Rabbi Aivu said** that **Rabbi Yannai said: The stipulation in the marriage contract** as well as additional amounts he chooses to add to the contract **are comparable to the marriage contract** itself.


###### Ketubot 54b:10
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נָפְקָא מִינַּהּ: לְמוֹכֶרֶת; וּלְמוֹחֶלֶת; לְמוֹרֶדֶת;

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
This principle produces **a practical difference** with regard to many issues. It is relevant **to one who sells** her marriage contract, indicating that such a sale includes the additional sum of the marriage contract; **and to one who waives** her marriage contract to her husband or his heirs, teaching that the additional sum is included in this relinquishing of rights to payment of the contract; and **to a rebellious** woman, from whom the court deducts a specific amount from her marriage contract each week until there is nothing left. These deductions come from the additional sum as well.


###### Ketubot 54b:11
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וּלְפוֹגֶמֶת; לְתוֹבַעַת; וּלְעוֹבֶרֶת עַל דָּת;

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And** this principle also results in a practical difference **to one who vitiates** her marriage contract, as one who states that she received part of the payment for her marriage contract does not receive the remainder without taking an oath, and the additional sum is included in this *halakha*; **to one who demands** payment for her marriage contract, as the Sages ruled that from the time she begins to demand the payment she waives her right to further sustenance, and this applies with regard to one who demands the additional sum as well; **and to one who violates the precepts** of *halakha* or of Jewish custom, who may be divorced without receiving payment for her marriage contract, including the additional sum.