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does not render herself acquired by a man.
The Talmud asks: The number in the latter clause of the Mishnah, that a woman acquires herself in two ways, serves to exclude what? The Talmud answers that it serves to exclude ḥalitza, i.e., a woman is not released from marriage through ḥalitza. Without this exclusion it might enter your mind to
The Talmud asks: And perhaps one should say that so too, this is the case, i.e., a married woman can be released from marriage through ḥalitza. The Talmud answers: The verse states with regard to divorce: “A scroll of severance” (Deuteronomy 24:3), which teaches: A scroll, i.e., a written document
§ The Mishnah teaches that a woman can be acquired with money. The Talmud asks: From where do we derive that a woman can be acquired through money? And furthermore, with regard to that which we learned in a Mishnah (Ketubot 46b): A father has authority over his daughter with regard to her betrotha
Rav Yehuda said that Rav said: The reason is that the verse states with regard to a Hebrew female slave acquiring freedom from her master: “Then shall she go out for nothing, without money” (Exodus 21:11). The extraneous phrase: Without money, indicates that there is no money for this master, i.e.