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The Talmud explains: The reason is due to enmity, so that he should not bear a grudge against her for finding articles and withholding them from him, which might lead him to become reluctant to provide her with sustenance.
§ The Mishnah further taught that a father is entitled to his daughter’s earnings. The Talmud asks: From where do we derive this? The Talmud answers: As Rav Huna said that Rav said: From where is it derived that the earnings of a daughter belong to her father? As it is stated: “And if a man sell hi
The Talmud responds: It is reasonable that her earnings should go to her father, as, if it should enter your mind to say that her earnings do not belong to her father, what about the fact that God entitles a father to bring his daughter, when she is a young woman, to the wedding canopy? How can he
Rav Aḥai refutes this claim: Say that when he brings her to the wedding canopy, he gives her the wages she neglects by taking a break from her work, and therefore the above objection does not apply. Alternatively, it is referring to a case where he brought her to the wedding canopy at night, when
Rather, the Talmud reverts to the original exposition based upon the case of a Hebrew female slave, and argues that with regard to a minor, it is not necessary to derive from a verse that her father is entitled to her earnings, for the following reason: Now, if her father has the right to sell he