Ketubot 91B

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the heirs acquired rights to the mothers’ marriage contracts due to the value of the estate when their father died, so too, in a case where the properties were few and the value subsequently appreciated, the heirs have acquired rights to divide the entire estate equally, due to the value of the est

§ This is a mnemonic device for the following halakhot, which are connected in one way or another to the problem being dealt with in the Mishnah: 1,000, and 100, mitzva, in the marriage contract, Ya’akov, set up, his fields, with words, disputants.

There was a certain man who had a creditor with a claim of 1,000 dinars against him. He had two mansions [appedanei]. He sold them, one for 500 and the other one also for 500. The creditor came and repossessed one of them from the purchaser, as the repayment of part of his debt. He subsequently soug

The purchaser took 1,000 dinars and went to the creditor. He said to him: If the first mansion that you repossessed is worth 1,000 dinars to you, very well, let it be yours in exchange for the entire sum that is owed to you, and if not, take these 1,000 dinars and abrogate your rights to both of th

Rami bar Ḥama thought to say that this case is identical to that which is taught in the Mishnah: If the orphans say: We inflate the value of our father’s property by a dinar, the court does not listen to them. This appears to be the case here as well, and the value of the mansion should not be asse