Kesubos 86b

כתובות פ״ו ע״ב

Ketubot 86b

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Topic

A delayed גט left at the sides of the public street; a husband's right to make his wife swear about managing his property, and releasing her from that oath.

Overview

The amud opens with the last words of the previous discussion: a court may force someone to keep a positive מצוה, such as paying a debt. Then רמי בר חמא asks רב חסדא about a גט that takes effect only after thirty days, which the woman left at צידי רשות הרבים (the sides of the public street). In one version רב חסדא says she is not divorced, learning from רב ושמואל that things lying in public are not acquired. רמי בר חמא counters with רב נחמן's case of a cow acquired after thirty days while standing in an אגם (open meadow). In a second version the two sides are swapped, and each comparison is rejected because these places are each their own category. A new משנה follows: a husband who makes his wife a storekeeper or a manager of his property may make her swear whenever he wants, and רבי אליעזר says this covers even her spinning and her dough. The גמרא proves from a ברייתא that רבי אליעזר allows that oath from the start, not only by adding it onto another oath (גלגול). The next משנה teaches how a husband can write in the כתובה that he gives up his right to make her swear, and how far that release reaches: to her heirs, to his heirs, and to a widow who managed the estate. The amud ends as the גמרא asks what oath the husband had over her in the first place, and רב's answer begins on the next amud.

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The steps (20)

1. ConclusionEnd of the previous discussion: the court may force a מצוה
2. QuestionA delayed divorce document left at the sides of the public street
3. Responseרב חסדא: she is not divorced, based on רב ושמואל
4. ChallengeThe opposite view: she is divorced, based on רב נחמן's cow case
5. RejectionA meadow is not the same as the sides of the public street
6. ResponseSecond version: רב חסדא says she is divorced
7. ChallengeChallenge from רב ושמואל: she should not be divorced
8. RejectionThe public street and its sides are separate
9. StatementNew משנה: a husband may make his business-running wife swear
10. QuestionDoes רבי אליעזר mean only by adding on, or from the start?
11. ProofProof from the חכמים: no one lives with a snake in a basket
12. RejectionShe may complain about his strictness alone
13. ProofA ברייתא: the store or manager case lets him make her swear
14. Proofרבי אליעזר: every wife is a manager of her spinning and dough
15. ConclusionThe גמרא accepts the proof
16. StatementA husband who wrote 'I have no vow or oath on you'
17. StatementFreeing her side from an oath, but only for himself
18. StatementA full release that covers both sides
19. StatementWhen the heirs can make a widow swear
20. QuestionWhat oath was there to release her from?