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then what is meant by the wording: She collects all that she is entitled to? What she has is only the main sum of the marriage contract of 100 or 200 dinars that she can collect. Clearly, the Mishnah is referring to a case where the husband wrote a marriage contract, and it does not indicate that a
And if one would say that the marriage contract of a betrothed woman is instead derived from that which Rav Ḥiyya bar Ami teaches, that is also difficult. He teaches: One does not enter acute mourning on the day of the death of his betrothed wife, nor may he become ritually impure at her funeral if
If it is derived from here that a betrothed woman receives payment of a marriage contract, this is not proof, as perhaps this too is referring to a case where he wrote a marriage contract for her. And if you would say that if it is referring to a case where he wrote her a marriage contract, what is
Rather, Abaye retracted his objection to R' Yoḥanan’s proof from the Mishnah, not because of the case of a widow from betrothal, but due to an indication from within the Mishnah itself. Because if it enters your mind that we are dealing with a place where they do not write a marriage contract, where
And even if you would say that since the rabbis instituted that she use the bill of divorce to collect her marriage contract, it is considered as though the liability of the husband to pay 100 or 200 dinars is written in it, and it would still be problematic to say that the bill of divorce is suffi