Ketubot 46B

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we require both this, i.e., the act of sex between the husband and wife, and that, i.e., the woman’s alleged act of sex with another man, to be performed in a typical manner in order for the laws of a defamer to apply, as R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov interprets the verses literally, meaning that the hus

Mishnah: A father has authority over his daughter with regard to her betrothal through money, through a marriage document, or through sex. Likewise, a father is entitled to items she has found, and to her earnings, and to effect the nullification of her vows, i.e., a father may nullify his daught

If the daughter married, the husband has more rights and obligations than her father had before the marriage, as he consumes the produce of her property during her lifetime, and he is obligated to provide her sustenance, her redemption if she is captured, and her burial upon her death. R' Yehuda say

Talmud: The Mishnah indicates that a father receives the money of his daughter’s betrothal. The Talmud asks: From where do we derive that the father is entitled to the money of her betrothal? Rav Yehuda said that the verse states, with regard to an emancipated Hebrew female slave: “Then she shall

The Talmud asks: But one can say that the betrothal money should go to her, as one can derive from the verse that there is no money for this master but there is money for the woman herself when she leaves her father’s domain. The Talmud refutes this suggestion: Now consider, her father accepts her