Mesorat%20hashas for Ketubot 5:8

הַמַּשְׁרֶה אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ עַל יְדֵי שָׁלִישׁ, לֹא יִפְחֹת לָהּ מִשְּׁנֵי קַבִּין חִטִּין, אוֹ מֵאַרְבָּעָה קַבִּין שְׂעוֹרִים. אָמַר רַבִּי יוֹסֵי, לֹא פָסַק לָהּ שְׂעוֹרִים אֶלָּא רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל שֶׁהָיָה סָמוּךְ לֶאֱדוֹם. וְנוֹתֵן לָהּ חֲצִי קַב קִטְנִית וַחֲצִי לֹג שֶׁמֶן, וְקַב גְּרוֹגָרוֹת, אוֹ מָנֶה דְבֵלָה. וְאִם אֵין לוֹ, פּוֹסֵק לְעֻמָּתָן פֵּרוֹת מִמָּקוֹם אַחֵר. וְנוֹתֵן לָהּ מִטָּה, מַפָּץ, וּמַחֲצֶלֶת. וְנוֹתֵן לָהּ כִּפָּה לְרֹאשָׁהּ, וַחֲגוֹר לְמָתְנֶיהָ, וּמִנְעָלִים מִמּוֹעֵד לְמוֹעֵד, וְכֵלִים שֶׁל חֲמִשִּׁים זוּז מִשָּׁנָה לְשָׁנָה. וְאֵין נוֹתְנִין לָהּ, לֹא חֲדָשִׁים בִּימוֹת הַחַמָּה, וְלֹא שְׁחָקִים בִּימוֹת הַגְּשָׁמִים. אֶלָּא נוֹתֵן לָהּ כֵּלִים שֶׁל חֲמִשִּׁים זוּז בִּימוֹת הַגְּשָׁמִים, וְהִיא מִתְכַּסָּה בִבְלָאוֹתֵיהֶן בִּימוֹת הַחַמָּה, וְהַשְּׁחָקִים שֶׁלָּהּ:

If one feeds (hamashreh) his wife through a third party [through a caretaker, not eating together with her, (The targum of (II Kings 6:23): "And he prepared for them a great meal" is "sheiruta.")], he may not give her less than two kavs (measures) of wheat [a week], or four kavs of barley. R. Yossi said: Only R. Yishmael, who lived near Edom [where barley was especially inferior] stipulated barley [twice as much as wheat.] And he gives her half a kav of pulse, half a log of oil, a kav of dried figs, or a manah of d'veilah [figs trodden into a circle and sold by weight and not by measure.] And if he lacks these, he cuts her "matching fruits" from a different place. And he gives her a bed, mapetz [softer than machtzeleth] for her things, shoes from festival to festival [new shoes for all three festivals], and clothing worth fifty zuz from year to year. And she is not given new clothes [that are uncomfortable for her] in the summertime, [making her hot then, but being appropriate for the wintertime], nor worn clothes in the wintertime. But he gives her clothing worth fifty zuz in the wintertime, and she wears them in their worn state in the summertime, and the worn clothes are hers [even when he buys her new ones; for she wears them when she is a niddah.]

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