Se uno ha sposato una donna e lei ha stipulato con lui [con atto scritto e kinyan (atto di acquisizione) o ha detto ai testimoni: siete i miei testimoni che mi obbligo] a nutrire sua figlia [che ha da un altro] per cinque anni, lui deve darle da mangiare per cinque anni. Se (la prima ha divorziato entro i cinque anni e) ha sposato un altro, e ha stipulato con lui per nutrire sua figlia per cinque anni, deve darle da mangiare per cinque anni. Il primo non può dire al secondo: se fosse venuta da me, l'avrei nutrita [cioè, se fossi rimasta sposata con sua madre, l'avrei nutrita], ma lui doveva portare il suo cibo nel luogo in cui si trova sua madre . [Perché noi governiamo: una figlia (minorenne o cresciuta) può rimanere con sua madre fintanto che lei (la madre) lo desidera. E un figlio rimane con sua madre per sei anni e il padre è obbligato a dargli da mangiare mentre è con sua madre, se lo desidera.] Allo stesso modo, i due non dovrebbero dire: Dobbiamo darle da mangiare come uno; ma uno la nutre e l'altro le dà da mangiare.
Bartenura on Mishnah Ketubot
הנושא את האשה ופסקה עמו – in the document and symbolic form of making an agreement binding, or he (i.e., the husband) aid to witnesses: “you are my witnesses that I obligate myself to support her (i.e., my wife-to-be’s) daughter that she has from another man.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Ketubot
Introduction
This mishnah deals with a case where a widow who already had a daughter married a man and cut a deal with him that he provide food and clothing for this daughter for five years.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Ketubot
לכשתבא אצלי – meaning to say, if I would sustain her mother, I would feed her.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Ketubot
If a man married a woman and she cut a deal with him that he should maintain her daughter for five years, he must maintain her for five years. Since he promised to maintain her for five years, he is obligated to do so, no matter what the circumstances, as we shall see below.
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מוליך לה מזונותיה למקום שאמה שם – for we hold that a daughter is with her mother whether as an adult or as a child – all the time that the mother wants. And the son, until six years with his mother, and the father is obligated to provide support and he is with his mother, if the mother wants.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Ketubot
If she was [subsequently] married to another man and cut a deal with him [as well] that he should maintain her daughter for five years, he must maintain her for five years. The first husband may not plead, “If she will come to me I will maintain her”, rather he must send her maintenance to her at the place where her mother [lives]. Similarly, the two husbands cannot plead, “We will maintain her jointly”, but one must maintain her and the other give her the cost of her maintenance. If this woman is divorced from this husband and goes and gets married again, and then cuts a deal with the new husband that he should maintain the daughter for five years, the first husband is still obligated, even though the daughter will now receive maintenance from the second husband. The first husband may not say that he will maintain her only if she comes back to live with him. Even though the first husband intended to maintain her so that he could be married to her mother, he is still obligated. If necessary he must send her maintenance money to wherever she may be. Finally, the two husbands cannot split the costs of the daughter’s maintenance. Rather each one must bear the full costs; one provides the actual food and clothing and another provides the monetary equivalent.
