Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer Siman 67

Siman 67

Presented here for study, not as a practical ruling. The Shulchan Aruch rules by Sephardi custom, the Rema's glosses by Ashkenazi custom, and the Kitzur follows Ashkenazi custom. For a practical question, ask your rabbi.

א בְּתוּלָה שֶׁנִּתְאַלְמְנָה אוֹ נִתְגָּרְשָׁה אוֹ נֶחֶלְצָה מִן הָאֵרוּסִין, וְנִשֵּׂאת, כְּתֻבָּתָהּ מָאתַיִם וְיֵשׁ לָהּ טַעֲנַת בְּתוּלִים:

1 A virgin that was widowed, divorced, or was released from a Levirite marriage during the time of engagement, and was [subsequently] married, her ketubah is worth 200 [shekel] and she has the claim of virgins.

ב נִתְאַלְמְנָה אוֹ נִתְגָּרְשָׁה אוֹ נֶחֶלְצָה מִן הַנִּשּׂוּאִין, כְּגוֹן שֶׁנִּכְנְסָה לָחֻפָּה, הֲרֵי הִיא בְּחֶזְקַת בְּעוּלָה וְאֵין לָהּ אֶלָּא מָנֶה וְאֵין עָלֶיהָ טַעֲנַת בְּתוּלִים, אֲפִלּוּ יֵשׁ לָהּ עֵדִים שֶׁלֹּא נִסְתְּרָה עִם הָרִאשׁוֹן:

2 If a woman was widowed, divorced, or released from a Levirite marriage after being married, for example after she has gone to the chuppah, she is assumed to be a non-virgin woman and her [ketubah] is 100 and she does not have the claim of virgins, even if she has witnesses that she was never alone with the first [husband]

ג הַגִּיֹּרֶת, וְהַשְּׁבוּיָה, וְהַשִּׁפְחָה, שֶׁנִּפְדּוּ וְשֶׁנִּתְגַּיְּרוּ וְשֶׁנִּשְׁתַּחְרְרוּ פְּחוּתָה מִבַּת שָׁלשׁ שָׁנִים וְיוֹם אֶחָד, כְּתֻבָּתָן מָאתַיִם וְיֵשׁ לָהֶם טַעֲנַת בְּתוּלִים; וּמִבַּת שָׁלשׁ שָׁנִים וְיוֹם אֶחָד וָמַעְלָה, כְּתֻבָּתָן מָנֶה וְאֵין לָהֶם טַעֲנַת בְּתוּלִים:

3 A convert, a woman taken captive, and a maidservant that was redeemed, converted, or freed: if she is less than three-years-old and a day, their ketubah is [worth] 200 [shekel] and they have claim of virgins; from 3-years-old and a day and above, their ketubah is 100 [shekel] and they do not have the claim of virgins.

ד קְטַנָּה פְּחוּתָה מִבַּת שָׁלשׁ שָׁנִים וְיוֹם אֶחָד שֶׁנִּבְעֲלָה, אֲפִלּוּ בָּא עָלֶיהָ גָּדוֹל, כְּתֻבָּתָהּ מָאתַיִם; וְקָטָן פָּחוֹת מִבֶּן תֵּשַׁע וְיוֹם אֶחָד שֶׁבָּא עַל הַגְּדוֹלָה, כְּתֻבָּתָהּ מָאתַיִם; וְדַוְקָא שֶׁלֹּא הֵסִיר בְּתוּלֶיהָ, אֲבָל אִם הֵסִיר בְּתוּלֶיהָ אֵין לָהּ אֶלָּא מָנֶה:

4 A female child less than three-years-old and one day that was taken as a wife, even if an adult had relations with her, her ketubah is 200 [zuz]; a child less than 9-years-old and a day that had relations with an adult woman, her ketubah is worth 200 [zuz], but only if he did not break her hymen, but if he broke her hymen, she gets only 100 [zuz]

ה מֻכַּת עֵץ, כְּתֻבָּתָהּ מָנֶה, וַאֲפִלּוּ לֹא הִכִּיר בָּהּ, וּכְנָסָהּ עַל מְנָת שֶׁהִיא בְּתוּלָה שְׁלֵמָה; אֲבָל כְּנָסָהּ בְּחֶזְקַת בְּתוּלָה, וְנִמְצֵאת בְּעוּלָה, אֲפִלּוּ מָנֶה אֵין לָהּ:

5 5 One wounded by [for example] a piece of wood [and therefore physically missing her hymen], her ketuba is a mana. And [this is the case] even if he did not recognize this and cohabitated with her assuming that she was an intact virgin. But if he cohabitated with her assuming that she was a virgin, and she was found to be sexually experienced, she gets not even one mana.

ו בְּתוּלָה שֶׁהִיא בּוֹגֶרֶת אוֹ סוּמָא, כְּתֻבָּתָהּ מָאתַיִם; וְכֵן אַיְלוֹנִית, אִם הִכִּיר בָּהּ, כְּתֻבָּתָהּ מָאתַיִם:

6 6 A virgin who is old or blind: her ketuba is 200; and similarly an aylonit [who does not develop secondary sexual characteristics], her ketuba is 200.

ז הַשּׁוֹטָה, לֹא תִּקְּנוּ לָהּ נִשּׂוּאִין כְּלָל:

7 7 For the mentally incompetent woman they [the Rabbis] established no form of marriage at all.

ח הַחֵרֶשֶׁת, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהּ נִשּׂוּאִין מִדִּבְרֵיהֶם, לֹא תִּקְּנוּ לָהּ כְּתֻבָּה וְלֹא מְזוֹנוֹת וְלֹא תְּנַאי מִתְּנָאֵי כְּתֻבָּה; וְאִם כָּנַס הַחֵרֶשֶׁת, וְנִתְפַּקְּחָה, אוֹ שׁוֹטָה וְנִשְׁתַּפֵּית, יֵשׁ לָהּ כְּתֻבָּה וּתְנָאֵי כְּתֻבָּה, וּכְתֻבָּתָהּ מָנֶה:

8 8 For the deaf-mute woman, even though they allotted her Rabbinic-level marriage, they did not allot her a ketubah, or food stipend, or any of the stipulations of the ketubah, and if one moved in with a deaf-mute woman and she developed [speech], or a mentally incompetent woman and she recovered, she gets a ketubah and all ketubah stipuations, and her ketubah [is worth] a mana.

ט נָשָׂא חֵרֶשֶׁת אוֹ שׁוֹטָה, וְכָתַב לָהּ מֵאָה מָנֶה, כְּתֻבָּתָהּ קַיֶּמֶת מִפְּנֵי שֶׁרָצָה לְהַזִּיק נְכָסָיו:

9 He raised up a deaf person or a simpleton [in marriage], and he wrote her [a ketuba worth] 100 mana, her ketuba stands in case she damages his property.

י חֵרֵשׁ אוֹ שׁוֹטֶה שֶׁנָּשְׂאוּ נָשִׁים, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנִּתְפַּקַּח הַחֵרֵשׁ וְנִשְׁתַּפָּה הַשּׁוֹטֶה, אֵין לִנְשֵׁיהֶם עֲלֵיהֶם כְּלוּם; רָצוּ לְקַיְּמָן אַחַר שֶׁהִבְרִיאוּ, יֵשׁ לָהֶן כְּתֻבָּה, וּכְתֻבָּתָן מָנֶה. וְאִם בֵּית דִּין הֵם שֶׁהִשִּׂיאוּ הַחֵרֵשׁ וְכָתְבוּ לָהּ כְּתֻבָּה עַל נְכָסָיו, נוֹטֶלֶת כָּל מַה שֶּׁכָּתְבוּ לָהּ בֵּית דִּין; אֲבָל הַשּׁוֹטֶה, אֵין בֵּית דִּין מַשִּׂיאִין אוֹתוֹ:

10 A deaf person or a simpleton that are raised up, even though the deaf person gained hearing or the simple person gained knowledge, there is no wifehood upon them, all of them. [If ] they wanted to stand [for marriage] after their recovery, they get a ketuba, and their ketuba is [worth] a mana. And if [there was] a court that officiated [the marriage of] the deaf person and they wrote her a ketuba [previously] on his property, she takes all that the court wrote for her [in the original ketuba], but the simpleton, there is no court [needed] for nullification of it (the original ketuba).

יא קָטָן, אֲפִלּוּ מִבֶּן תֵּשַׁע שָׁנִים וָמַעְלָה, שֶׁהִשִּׂיאוֹ אָבִיו, אֵין לָהּ כְּתֻבָּה; וְאִם בָּא עָלֶיהָ אַחַר שֶׁהִגְדִּיל, יֵשׁ לָהּ עִקַּר כְּתֻבָּה, מָאתַיִם לִבְתוּלָה, מָנֶה לְאַלְמָנָה; אֲבָל תּוֹסֶפֶת שֶׁכָּתַב לָהּ בְּקַטְנוּתוֹ, אֵין לָהּ, וַאֲפִלּוּ הִשִּׂיאוּהָ בֵּית דִּין; וַאֲפִלּוּ הָעִקָּר אֵינָהּ גּוֹבָה מִכֹּחַ שְׁטַר הַכְּתֻבָּה, אֶלָּא מִתְּנַאי בֵּית דִּין. לְפִיכָךְ, אֵינָהּ גּוֹבָה אֶלָּא מִבְּנֵי חָרֵי, וְלֹא מִמְּשַׁעְבְּדֵי שֶׁנִּמְכְּרוּ בְּקַטְנוּתוֹ. וְכֵן הַדִּין בְּגֵר שֶׁנִּתְגַּיְּרָה אִשְׁתּוֹ עִמּוֹ, וְאֵין בֵּינֵיהֶם אֶלָּא שֶׁבְּזוֹ אֵין כְּתֻבָּתָהּ אֶלָּא מָנֶה לְדַעַת הָרַמְבַּ"ם:

11 A minor, even from nine years and up, that his father marries off, [his wife] has no Ketubah; but if he had relations with her after he matured, she has no main part of the Ketubah, [which is] 200 [Zuz] for a virgin, and a Maneh for a widow; but the additional part that he writes her while a minor, she doesn't have, even if Beis Din married her. And even the main part [of the Ketubah ] she can't collect by the power of the Ketubah document, but only by condition of Beis Din. Therefore, she can only collect from his current property (lit. sons of the free) and not from [property with] a lien that he sold since he was a minor. And so is the law with a convert that converted with his wife, and the only difference [between this case and the one above] is that in this one, her Ketubah is only a Maneh according to the Rambam.

Previous Chapter Next Chapter