Una vergine viene data dodici mesi [al tempo della chuppah] dal momento in cui [il marito] l'ha sollecitata [dopo averla promessa sposa, per riflettere sulle esigenze della chuppah, per preparare i suoi ornamenti.], Per provvedere a se stessa [con ornamenti per dodici mesi, scritto (Bereishith 24:55): "Lascia che la fanciulla resti con noi giorni". Qual è l'intento di "giorni"? Un anno, scritto (Levitico 25: 9): "Entro pochi giorni (cioè un anno) può riscattarlo". E proprio come alla donna viene dato (tempo), così anche all'uomo viene concesso (tempo) di provvedere a se stesso [per i bisogni della festa nuziale e della chuppah.] E a una vedova vengono dati trenta giorni, [poiché non ha bisogno di si impegna troppo con gli ornamenti, già disponendoli.] Se arrivasse il momento e non fossero sposati, [lo sposo ritardava il matrimonio (poiché la prima parte della Mishnah fu dichiarata con riferimento a lei, la seconda parte fu dichiarata allo stesso modo) ], mangia della sua e mangia la terumah [se lui è un Cohein e lei è israelita. Perché dal momento in cui l'ha promessa lei mangia teruma secondo la legge della Torah, scritta (Levitico 22:11): "E un Cohein, se acquisisce un'anima, l'acquisizione del suo denaro", ed è "l'acquisizione della sua i soldi." È solo che i rabbini hanno decretato la figlia di un israelita sposata con un Cohein che non mangiava teruma, per paura che le versassero una tazza (di teruma) nella casa di suo padre e dava da bere ai suoi fratelli e sorelle. Ma quando è arrivato il momento (per la sua chuppah) e lei non era sposata, quando mangia della sua, non mangia nella casa di suo padre, ma suo marito, il Cohein, designa un posto per lei dove la nutre, in modo che non c'è più alcun bisogno di decretare che non dia ai suoi fratelli e sorelle un bicchiere di teruma.] R. Tarfon dice: Le potrebbe essere dato tutto il teruma [se lo desidera, e quando i giorni della sua (niddah) impurità arriva, lo vende e compra il chullin (non-terumah).] R. Akiva dice: (Le viene dato) mezzo-chullin [da mangiare nei giorni della sua impurità], mezzo-teruma.
Bartenura on Mishnah Ketubot
נותנין לבתולה – the time to bring her into the canopy from the day that the husband demanded her after he betrothed her to warn her on the mattes the Huppah to prepare her ornaments/possessions.
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Introduction
This mishnah discusses the waiting period between betrothal and marriage.
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לפרנס עצמה – with her ornaments/possessions for twelve months, as it is written (Genesis 24:55): “Let the maiden remain with us some days;” And what are “days” – a year, as it is written (Leviticus 25:29): “[If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, I may be redeemed until a year has elapsed since its sale;] the redemption period shall be a year.”
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A virgin is given twelve months from the [time her intended] husband claimed her, [in which] to prepare herself for marriage. Just as [such a period] is given to the woman, so is it given to the man to prepare himself. A widow is given thirty days. Betrothal may occur at an early age, but that doesn’t mean that marriage will necessarily occur any time close to the betrothal. There are two steps described by our mishnah that occur before the marriage. The first is that the husband tells the woman whom he betrothed that he wishes to marry her or the woman tells the man to whom she is betrothed that she wishes to get married. From that point on, if this is a first marriage, there can be up to a twelve month period in which the couple prepare for the wedding and the marriage. This would include time to prepare for the wedding, and more importantly, time to prepare the new house and the things that will go into it. She will use this time to prepare her jewelry and clothes for the wedding. A widow is only given thirty days. Since she has already been married she is more prepared for a second marriage. Also, the second marriage was not as big of a celebration.
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לפרנס עצמו – the needs of the meal and the Huppah/marriage.
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If the time has come and they were not married they are entitled to receive maintenance from the man’s estate and [if he is a priest] they may eat terumah. If the time to get married has come and passed, and the husband has not yet married his betrothed wife, he must begin to pay for her maintenance, meaning food, clothing and shelter. Since he is feeding her, if he is a priest he may begin to give her terumah.
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ולאלמנה שלשים יום – who does not trouble [herself] so much with her ornaments because they are already in her hand.
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Rabbi Tarfon says: They give her [all of her food] in terumah. Rabbi Akiva says: One half unconsecrated food and one half terumah. There is now a debate between Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon over how much of a woman’s food a priestly husband may supply in terumah. It is to the husband’s advantage to give her terumah since terumah is cheaper than regular, unconsecrated food since only priests may eat terumah (smaller market = lower price). The woman will have a problem with terumah for when she menstruates and is impure she cannot eat it. According to Rabbi Tarfon, the husband can give all of his wife’s food in terumah. If she needs to have unconsecrated food when she is impure, she can sell her terumah and buy other food. Rabbi Akiva demands that he give her half of her food in unconsecrated food so that when she is impure she need not go to the trouble of selling the terumah.
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ולא נשאו – for the owners delay and since the Tanna/teacher in the first segment taught about her, the end of the Mishnah also teaches about her.
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ואוכלת בתרומה – if he is a Kohen, and she is an Israelite, that from the time that he betrothed her, she consumes the Terumah/Priest’s due from Torah law, as it is written (Leviticus 22:11): “But a person who is a priest’s property by purchase may eat of them.” And this person who is [the priest’s] property by purchase , but the Rabbis decreed upon an Israelite woman who is betrothed to a Kohen should not consume Terumah as a decree lest he offer her a cup to drink in her father’s house and she will give her some to her brothers and her sisters, and when the time arrives and she hasn’t married, she eats from his food, and does not eat in her father’s house, other than if her husband who is a Kohen designates a place and feeds her there, but there is no further decree lest she provide drink from a cup of Terumah to her brothers or to her sisters.
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ר' עקיבא אומר מחצה חולין – to eat during her impurity.
