Ketubot 71A

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the incident of Beit Ḥoron, where an individual had vowed to prohibit his father from deriving benefit from him, and then in order to allow his father to come to the celebration of his son’s wedding, he gave all of his property to someone else as a gift. The recipient of the property was concerned

§ It was taught in the Mishnah: R' Yehuda says: If the husband is an Israelite, then if his vow will remain in effect for up to one month, he may maintain her as his wife; and if it will be two months, he must divorce her and give her the payment of her marriage contract. But if he is a priest, th

Rav said: With regard to the 30-day time frame, where the rabbis established that a husband supports his wife through a trustee, they taught this only with regard to a case where he specifies a limited time during which the vow will be in effect. But if he vows without specification of an end point

The Talmud asks: But they have already disagreed about this issue one time with regard to a similar situation, as we learned in a Mishnah (61b): With regard to one who vows and obligates his wife, prohibiting her from engaging in marital sex with him, Beit Shammai say: If the vow will remain in ef

The Talmud answers: It is necessary to state it twice, as, if it was stated only in that case, i.e., that of a vow rendering it prohibited for her to have sex with him, then one may have said that in that case Rav says he must divorce her immediately, because it is impossible to compensate for the v