Commentary for Ketubot 3:6
יְתוֹמָה שֶׁנִּתְאָרְסָה וְנִתְגָּרְשָׁה, רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר, הַמְפַתֶּה פָטוּר, וְהָאוֹנֵס חַיָּב:
An orphan who was betrothed and divorced — R. Eliezer says: One who seduces her is exempt (from knass) and one who forces her is liable. [For since she is an orphan and her knass belongs to her, she waives it, for she cohabited with him consentingly and he is exempt. And not an orphan alone, but any maiden who was betrothed and divorced — one who forces her is liable, and one who seduces her is exempt, just as in the instance of an orphan, for her knass belongs to her, as R. Akiva says above, and this is the halachah.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Ketubot
יתומה שנתארסה ונתגרשה האונס חייב והמפתה פטור – for since she is an orphan and her fine is hers, the logical support is towards him, for of her own free will she was seduced to him and he is exempt. But not only an orphan, but rather, any young woman who was betrothed and divorced, the rapist is liable and the seducer is exempt like the orphan-girl, for the fine is for herself, as is stated by Rabbi Akiva above (in Mishnah 3 of this chapter) and such is the Halakha.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Ketubot
Introduction
This mishnah teaches that if the girl herself receives the fine, then she only receives it if she is raped. If she consents to having relations with the man, he does not pay the fine.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Ketubot
An orphan who was betrothed and then divorced Rabbi Elazar says that one who seduces her is exempt but one who rapes her is liable [to pay the fine]. In the case in this mishnah the fine surely would go to the girl, for her father is no longer alive. In fact, the Talmud explains that the despite the fact that the mishnah refers to an orphan, this mishnah actually refers to any girl who was betrothed and then divorced or widowed, and that the mishnah is according to the opinion of Rabbi Akiva in the previous mishnah. A girl who was betrothed and then divorced is called “an orphan while her father is still alive” because once she is betrothed, she is out of her father’s domain. In this case, if she was seduced then the man does not pay the fine because she consented. If raped he must pay the fine, as Rabbi Akiva stated in yesterday’s mishnah.
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