Kesubos 100b

כתובות ק׳ ע״ב

Ketubot 100b

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Topic

Court sales of orphans' property (pricing errors, the announcement rule, and selling movables), then a new משנה on which women lose their כתובה.

Overview

The amud opens by finishing רב יוסף's point: a buyer at a court sale keeps his guarantee, and it rests on the orphans. Next, רב ששת says that according to רבן שמעון בן גמליאל, a court's sale stands even if the price was off by up to half, and a ברייתא supports this. אמימר quotes רב יוסף: a court that sold without a public announcement (הכרזה) has made a mistake in a clear rule, so the sale is reversed. רב אשי challenges this from a משנה, and the גמרא gives three answers. Some items (slaves, movables, documents) are never announced. Urgent needs (head tax, food, burial) allow selling without an announcement. And some places, like נהרדעא, never announced at all. The גמרא then teaches how orphans' movable property is sold: at the market if market day is near, right away if it is far. Two stories with רב כהנא and רבינא show this. Finally, a new משנה lists women who get no כתובה (ממאנת, שניה, איילונית) and women in forbidden marriages who still do. The גמרא begins with רב and שמואל arguing about a minor divorced with a גט, and שמואל's list of differences between a ממאנת and a divorcée continues on the next amud.

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The steps (34)

1. ResolutionWhy רב יוסף needed to say the buyer still gets a guarantee
2. QuestionHow far can a court's price be off according to רבן שמעון בן גמליאל?
3. Responseרב ששת: up to half
4. ProofA ברייתא supports the 'up to half' limit
5. StatementA court sale without a public announcement is reversed
6. ChallengeWhy 'treated as' a mistake? It is a real mistake!
7. ResolutionThat משנה could have been only about an agent
8. Challengeרב אשי: a fair-priced court sale stands, even without an announcement?
9. Resolutionאמימר: that case had an announcement
10. ChallengeThe last clause is the announced case, so the first clause is not
11. ResolutionA new answer: some items are never announced
12. StatementThe list of items that are not announced
13. QuestionWhy are slaves not announced?
14. ResponseAnnouncing would put these items at risk
15. ResolutionA second answer: times when there is no announcement
16. ProofThe Sages of נהרדעא: urgent needs allow selling without an announcement
17. ResolutionIt depends on the place: some places announce and some do not
18. Proofרב נחמן: נהרדעא never made an announcement document
19. StatementThe students guess the reason: the judges were expert appraisers
20. RejectionThe real reason: buyers at announced sales got an insulting nickname
21. Statementשמואל: orphans' movable property is appraised and sold right away
22. Statementאבימי: orphans' movable property is sold at the market
23. ResolutionNo real disagreement: it depends on how close market day is
24. Proofרב כהנא waits for the festival to sell an orphan's beer
25. Questionרבינא asks whether he may sell his nephew's wine with his own
26. Responseרב אשי: Go, the orphan's wine is no better than yours
27. StatementNew משנה: three women who get no כתובה or other payments
28. StatementMarrying her knowing she is an אילונית
29. StatementWomen in forbidden marriages still get a כתובה
30. Statementרב: a minor divorced with a גט gets no כתובה
31. Statementשמואל: only the ממאנת loses her כתובה
32. Proofשמואל is consistent with his own teaching elsewhere
33. StatementA ממאנת is not forbidden to the brothers or to a כהן; a divorcée is
34. StatementA ממאנת does not need to wait three months