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Due to the increased desirability that this would bring her when trying to remarry, since this would ensure she would bring assets with her into a new marriage, the rabbis were lenient with her, as the rabbis issued several decrees in connection with the marriage contract in order to enable women t
§ The Mishnah taught that the court refrained from administering an oath to her. The Talmud asks: What is the reason that they refrained from administering oaths to widows? If we say that it is because of the statement of Rav Kahana, as Rav Kahana says, and some say that it was Rav Yehuda who says
After a period of time, the owner of the dinar came and said to her: Give me my dinar. She said to him: May poison benefit, i.e., take effect on, one of the children of that woman, i.e., my children, if I derived any benefit from your dinar. It was said: Not even a few days passed until one of her
The Talmud first clarifies the details of the incident: What is the reason that she was punished if she in fact did not derive any benefit from the dinar? The Talmud answers: Because she benefited [ishtarshi] from the place of the dinar, as the dinar took up space in the bread, enabling her to use
The Talmud asks: If she in fact did derive benefit from the dinar, then what is meant by the statement: One who takes an oath truthfully? Wasn’t her oath actually false? The Talmud answers: It means that she was like one who took an oath truthfully, as her oath was truthful to the best of her know