Commentaire sur Ketoubot 3:6
יְתוֹמָה שֶׁנִּתְאָרְסָה וְנִתְגָּרְשָׁה, רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר אוֹמֵר, הַמְפַתֶּה פָטוּר, וְהָאוֹנֵס חַיָּב:
Un orphelin qui a été fiancé et divorcé —R. Eliezer dit: Celui qui la séduit est exempt (de knass) et celui qui la force est responsable. [Car puisqu'elle est orpheline et que son cheval lui appartient, elle y renonce, car elle a cohabité avec lui avec consentement et il en est exempt. Et pas un orphelin seul, mais n'importe quelle jeune fille qui était fiancée et divorcée— celui qui la force est responsable, et celui qui la séduit est exonéré, tout comme dans le cas d'un orphelin, car son knass lui appartient, comme le dit R. Akiva plus haut, et c'est la halakha.]
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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