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And it is the man, her husband, whose field was flooded. In other words, like one whose field was flooded and destroyed, it is he who has suffered a natural disaster, as it is his status as a priest that forces him to divorce his wife. Therefore, she is entitled to receive payment of her marriage
The Talmud analyzes the Mishnah: With what are we dealing? If we say the Mishnah is speaking of the wife of an Israelite, consider the following: If she claims that she had sex willingly, does she have any right to receive payment of her marriage contract? And if she says it was by force, i.e., sh
§ A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: If a woman said to her husband: You divorced me, what is the halakha? Is she believed or not? Rav Hamnuna said: Come and hear an answer to this question from what is stated in the Mishnah about a woman who says: I am defiled to you, that even according to th
Rava said to him: On the contrary, even according to the initial version of the Mishnah that teaches that the woman is believed in her claim that she is defiled to her husband, it may be argued that it is only there that she is believed, because a woman would not demean herself by claiming she was r
Rav Mesharshiyya raised an objection: Let the ruling of the initial version of the Mishnah, with regard to a woman who says: Heaven is between me and you, be a conclusive refutation of the opinion of Rava, as here she suffers no embarrassment on account of her claim, and yet the tanna teaches th