Kesubos 11a

כתובות י״א ע״א

Ketubot 11a

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Topic

Conversion of a minor: רב הונא's rule that a בית דין may convert a child, רב יוסף's right to protest at adulthood, and new משניות on the כתובה amounts of different women

Overview

The amud opens by finishing an earlier list of word meanings: an איילונית is named after a ram, a male animal that cannot give birth. A new משנה then teaches that a גיורת, a שבויה, or a שפחה who became Jewish or free before age three gets a בתולה's full כתובה of two hundred. רב הונא rules that a בית דין may immerse a קטן for conversion, because conversion is a benefit for a child who has not yet tasted forbidden things. An attempt to prove this from the משנה is pushed away: the משנה may be about children converting together with their father. רב יוסף adds that a child convert can protest and cancel the conversion when he grows up. אביי challenges him from the משנה's כתובה, and רבא challenges him from the קנס paid for these girls. Both challenges get the same answer: the money is paid only after she grows up, and her chance to protest lasts just one moment once she becomes an adult. The גמרא explains why each אמורא chose his own source, and then a new משנה begins listing which women get a כתובה of two hundred and which get one hundred.

Opening lines

The steps (20)

1. ConclusionThe word איילונית comes from 'ram'
2. StatementWomen freed or converted before age three get a full virgin's כתובה
3. StatementA minor convert is immersed with the court's consent
4. ChallengeIsn't רב הונא's rule already taught in a משנה?
5. ResolutionWhy רב הונא needed to say his ruling
6. ProofTrying to support רב הונא from our משנה
7. RejectionThe משנה may be about children converting with their father
8. StatementA child convert can protest when grown
9. ChallengeWhy give a full כתובה to someone who may leave?
10. ResolutionShe is paid only after she grows up
11. ChallengeEven as an adult she could still leave
12. ResolutionThe chance to protest lasts only one moment
13. ChallengeWhy give the fine to someone who may leave?
14. ResolutionThe fine is paid only after she grows up
15. ChallengeEven as an adult she could still leave
16. ResolutionSilence for one moment makes the conversion final
17. RejectionWhy אביי did not use רבא's proof from the fine
18. RejectionWhy רבא did not use אביי's proof from the marriage contract
19. StatementNew משנה: the כתובה of a woman whose virginity was affected in unusual ways
20. StatementA virgin widow, divorcee, or חלוצה from full marriage gets מנה