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Mishnah: With regard to a grown woman who waited 12 months after her betrothal and the time arrived for her betrothed to marry her, or a widow who waited 30 days and the time arrived for her betrothed to marry her, R' Eliezer says: Since her husband is already obligated to provide for her sustenanc
Talmud: Rabba says: R' Eliezer and the initial version of the Mishnah said the same thing, as we learned in a Mishnah (Ketubot 57a): A virgin is given 12 months from the time of her betrothal to prepare herself, i.e., to prepare her trousseau. If the end of the 12-month period arrived, even if he
If the woman completed 6 months of awaiting marriage under the aegis of the husband, and he died, and then she completed 6 months under the aegis of the yavam; or even if she completed all of those months under the aegis of the husband, less one day; or all of them under the aegis of the yavam less
Abaye said to him: Perhaps it is not so. The initial version of the Mishnah teaches us only about the permissibility of her partaking of teruma whose status is by rabbinic law, but with regard to vows, whose prohibitions have the force of Torah law, say that her betrothed cannot nullify them.
And perhaps you did not hear R' Eliezer state his opinion that a betrothed woman is regarded as married only with regard to vows. Perhaps R' Eliezer holds like that which Rav Pineḥas said in the name of Rava, who said: Any woman who takes a vow, takes a vow contingent upon the consent of her husban