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it is as though she is at the beginning of her period of widowhood, and she has another 25 years from that point during which she may demand payment of her marriage contract. And if she has a marriage contract in her possession, she may collect payment of her marriage contract forever.
The Talmud relates that Rav Naḥman, son of Rav Ḥisda, sent the following message to Rav Naḥman bar Ya’akov: Our teacher, instruct us. Does the dispute between R' Meir and the Rabbis apply in a case where she has a marriage contract in her possession, or does it apply only in a case where she does n
Rav Naḥman bar Ya’akov sent back this answer to him: When she does not have a marriage contract in her possession, there is a dispute, but in a case where she has a marriage contract in her possession, all agree that she may collect payment of her marriage contract forever. And in a case where t
When Rav Dimi came from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia, he cited a dispute: R' Shimon ben Pazi said that R' Yehoshua ben Levi said in the name of bar Kappara: They taught that a widow is presumed to have waived her rights to payment of her marriage contract after 25 years only with regard to 100 dinars
And R' Abbahu said that R' Yoḥanan said: She does not have the right to demand payment even of the additional sum recorded in the marriage contract, as R' Aivu said that R' Yannai said: The stipulation of an additional sum in the marriage contract is like the principal sum of the marriage contract.