Kesubos 79a

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Ketubot 79a

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Topic

The שטר מברחת a woman writes to keep property from her husband, and the new משנה on turning a wife's inherited money and produce into land, including the rule for telling produce from principal.

Overview

The amud opens with רב נחמן tearing up a gift document a woman had written to her daughter. רב ענן complains to מר עוקבא, who calls it a שטר מברחת and backs רב נחמן with שמואל's ruling that such documents are torn. רבא asks whether a mother might really give to her daughter, and רב נחמן answers that a person still puts herself first. The גמרא then challenges שמואל from a ברייתא implying that an evasion document can work. רבי זירא answers that שמואל's case is when she wrote over all her property, while the ברייתא's case is only part of it. אביי explains that the husband still does not get the property, because it is treated like property he does not know about. A new משנה then teaches that money or produce a wife inherits is used to buy land, and lists three views about produce still growing. The גמרא discusses what to buy, gives a rule for telling produce from principal, and begins a teaching of רבי ינאי about a thief that continues on the next amud.

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The steps (20)

1. Statementרב נחמן tears the document
2. Questionרב ענן complains and מר עוקבא asks for the facts
3. Responseמר עוקבא supports tearing a document of evasion
4. Challengeרבא questions the reason when the gift is to a daughter
5. ResolutionEven compared to her daughter, she prefers herself
6. ChallengeChallenge begins from רבן שמעון בן גמליאל's ברייתא
7. StatementThe חכמים say she needs a special clause
8. ChallengeWithout the clause, the recipient acquires
9. ResolutionAll her property versus part of it
10. ChallengeThen the husband should acquire it
11. ResolutionTreated like property the husband doesn't know about
12. StatementInherited money or picked produce is used to buy land
13. Statementרבי מאיר: produce still growing is valued and the extra buys land
14. StatementThe חכמים: attached produce is his, detached produce is hers
15. Statementרבי שמעון: a gain at the start means a loss at the end
16. Statementרבי שמעון's example: attached and detached produce
17. StatementObvious cases: which purchase wins when the couple disagree
18. StatementHawthorn forest and fishpond: produce or principal?
19. ConclusionThe rule: does the trunk grow back?
20. StatementNew teaching from רבי ינאי about a thief