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her husband’s authority in marriage via the wedding canopy. If the father delivered his daughter to the husband’s messengers to bring her to her husband and the wedding canopy, once she has been handed over she is under the husband’s authority. However, if the father went with the husband’s messeng
Talmud: The Mishnah taught that a daughter always remains under her father’s authority until she has fully entered her husband’s jurisdiction. The Talmud asks: What is the significance of the term: Always, in the Mishnah? The Talmud explains: This comes to exclude the opinion stated in the initial
§ The Mishnah taught that if the father delivered his daughter to the husband’s messengers, she is under the husband’s authority, unless the father or his messengers accompanied them. Rav said: When her father delivers her she leaves his jurisdiction in all respects, apart from the issue of partak
Rav Huna raised an objection to the opinion of Rav Asi, and some say that it was Ḥiyya, son of Rav, who raised an objection to the opinion of Rav Asi: The Mishnah states that she is always under her father’s authority until she enters the wedding canopy. According to Rav Asi, however, as soon as h
And Shmuel said that once a woman’s father has delivered her to the messengers of her husband, she is under her husband’s authority only with regard to her inheritance, i.e., her husband inherits her property upon her death as though she had already entered the wedding canopy.