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Come and hear a resolution of the dilemma from the following baraita: When did they say that if the husband died the authority to nullify a young woman’s vows reverts to the father? When the husband did not hear the vow; or he heard the vow and nullified it; or heard it, and was silent, and died on
The Talmud rejects the proof from the baraita: State the latter clause of the baraita: But if he heard it and ratified it; or he heard it, and was silent, and died on the following day, then the father cannot nullify the vow. But according to this clause, if you say that divorce is like ratificatio
Rather, one cannot learn anything from this baraita about the effect of divorce on her vows. The Talmud explains that the discrepancy between the two clauses is stylistic and can be explained either way: If the cases in the first clause are chosen precisely, allowing for the inference that divorce
Come and hear a Mishnah (71a): If she took a vow while she was betrothed, and was divorced, and was betrothed again on the same day, even to 100 men, her father and her final husband nullify her vows. Learn from this Mishnah that divorce is like silence, because if it were like ratification, could t
The Talmud rejects this proof: With what are we dealing here? We are dealing with a case in which the first betrothed man did not hear the vow, and for that reason his divorcing her does not constitute ratification. The Talmud then asks: If so, why mention specifically that the divorce occurred on