Ketubot 53B

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Your good is taken and cast on thorns, i.e., we do not owe you a debt of gratitude for informing us of this statement, as Rav Hoshaya himself already interpreted and ruled this halakha of yours in Babylonia.

§ The Mishnah taught that one of the stipulations of the marriage contract is the clause: Any female children you will have from me will be sustained from my property. The Talmud notes that Rav would teach that the daughters are entitled to sustenance until they are taken as wives by men, and Levi w

Rather, in a case where they became grown women and were not married, or were married and had not become grown women, everyone agrees that they are not entitled to sustenance. When they disagree it is with regard to a daughter who was betrothed and had not become a grown woman. Levi maintains tha

The Talmud observes: The dispute between Rav and Levi is like a dispute between tanna’im. As we have learned: Until when is a daughter sustained from her father’s property? Until she is betrothed. In the name of R' Elazar they said: Until she becomes a grown woman. Rav Yosef taught the version: Unt

Rav Ḥisda said to Rav Yosef: Have you heard anything from Rav Yehuda with regard to whether a betrothed orphan has sustenance from the brothers’ inheritance of their father’s estate, or whether she does not have sustenance? Rav Yosef said to him: As for hearing, I have not heard anything, but by l