The Ketubah Guaranteed to a Wife in case of Divorce/Widowing
In this document, "Ketubah" will refer to the document guaranteeing Money to the Wife in the event of Widowing/Divorce. "Ketubah-Money" will refer to that money.
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Nature of the Ketubah
As a biblical requirement or Rabbinic institution: Ketuvot 10a, 12a-b, 39b, 56a-b
The purpose of the ketubah payment is to prevent a man from easily divorcing his wife: Ketuvot 11a, 39b
The rules governing the ketubah, such as regarding collection and forfeiture, apply to all of its conditions as well as to added gifts [tosefet] pledged by the husband: Ketuvot 54b-55a
Writing the ketubah during the day, and signing it that night: Gittin 18a
May a couple marry without a ketubah obligation upon the husband?: Ketuvot 7a, 54b, 56a-57a
If a man marries a woman on condition that he is not obligated in the ketubah, is the condition effective?: Ketuvot 56a-57a
Is it effective and acceptable for a bride to declare verbally that she has already received part of the ketubah payment (during the marriage), when she has not?: Ketuvot 56a-57a
Is it effective and acceptable for a bride to write a document asserting that she has already received part of the ketubah payment (during the marriage), when she has not?: Ketuvot 54b, 56b-57a
Is the ketubah effective from the time of kiddushin, or the time of marriage?: Ketuvot 43b-44a, 47a-b, 53a-b, 54b, 55a-b
Is the ketubah effective if the husband or the wife die after kiddushin, before nisuin: Ketuvot 53a-b
Must the husband pay the ketubah if he is halachically required to divorce his wife?: Ketuvot 52a
Which estate funds the ketubah in a case of yibbum - the estate of the deceased, or the estate of the brother who marries the widow?: Ketuvot 53b
Value of the Ketubah Payment
Amount for a widow: Ketuvot 10b, 54b
Amount for a widow and the connecton to the term "Almanah [Widow]": Ketuvot 10b
Amount for a betulah: Ketuvot 10b, 54b
"Betulah" in the above line refers to a woman who has never had sexual relations: Niddah 8b
For a betulah who was married but never consummated the relationship: Ketuvot 11a
For the daughter of a Kohen: Ketuvot 12a-b
For a widow/divorcee from kiddushin: Ketuvot 10b, Bava Metzia 17b-18a
For a woman who went with the husband's agents who were assigned to bring her to him (or to the chuppah), and then the husband died or they divorced: Ketuvot 48b
For a Convert/Maid/Ransomed Woman converted or freed from slavery/captivity under the age of three: Ketuvot 11a
For a Convert/Maid/Ransomed Woman converted or freed from slavery/captivity when older than the age of three: Ketuvot 11b, 36b
For a woman who was slept with when under three years of age: Ketuvot 11a
For a woman who was slept with by a male under nine years of age: Ketuvot 11a-b
Is sexual intercourse of a male under nine years old like losing betulim in a non-sexual accident: Ketuvot 11b
Ketubah amount for a woman who lost her betulim in a non-sexual accident - מוכת עץ: Ketuvot 11a
The standard amount is equal to the value of "Mohar HaBetulot": Ketuvot 10a
The full ketubah amount is owed even if there was no formal ketubah document; this is an enactment by the rabbinical court [tenai beit din]: Ketuvot 51a
The full ketubah amount is owed even if the husband wrote in the ketubah that a particular field will be given for the ketubah, and he did not stipulate that all of his property is bound for payment, and that field is worth less than the full ketubah amount. This is an enactment by the rabbinical court [tenai beit din]: Ketuvot 51a
May a husband and wife marry and have the wife present a document foregoing part of the ketubah payment, or does that constitute a relationship of promiscuity [zenut]?: Ketuvot 51a
Does the clothing the widow/divorcee is wearing when the ketubah is paid count toward her ketubah?: Ketuvot 54a
May a husband designate movable items for collection of the ketubah?: Ketuvot 56b
Reduction of a woman's ketubah over time for refusal to engage in sexual relations: Ketuvot 63a-b
Reduction of a woman's ketubah over time for refusal to engage in housework: Ketuvot 63a-b
Adding to a woman's ketubah of time for her husband's refusal to engage in sexual relations: Ketuvot 63a
Adding to a woman's ketubah when the husband refuses to support her, until the divorce is finally forced: Ketuvot 63a
Problems setting the amount for the Ketubah
Believing a woman for her ketubah rights when she explains how she lost her betulim, because of a migo: she could have made a better claim for herself: Ketuvot 12b-13a, 15b-16b
What if a bride claimed to be a betulah at the time of kiddushin and later said her betulim were damaged without a sexual act: Ketuvot 11b
What if a bride claimed to be a betulah at the time of kiddushin and later said that she had had sexual relations: Ketuvot 11b-13a
Credibility of her claim of "I was a betulah at marriage" vs. his claim of "You were already married previously": Ketuvot 15b-16a
Making a claim on behalf of a woman to justify her receiving the ketubah money despite lack of betulim, where she didn't know to make that claim herself, as a function of the principle that judges should "open their mouths for those who are mute": Ketuvot 36a
The assumption that most women are married as betulot: Ketuvot 16a-b, 28a
The assumption that it is known when a bride is a betulah: Ketuvot 16a-b
Credibility of Witnesses, where there is no public awareness that a woman was a betulah when she married: Ketuvot 16b
Proof via witnesses that there was a Hinuma [a type of celebration done in Talmudic times when a betulah married]: Ketuvot 15b,16a-b
Where one of the witnesses who confirm that her wedding had a Hinuma witnessed the wedding as a minor: Ketuvot 28a
Additional Amounts Pledged by the Husband - Tosefet Ketubah תוספת כתובה
The rabbis potentially banning tosefet ketubah (out of concern for embarrassing those who cannot do this): Ketuvot 54b
If a woman has a ketubah with the normal value, and she also holds a ketubah that is greater than the normal value but without explicitly saying that the husband added to the first, do we view the second as an addition to the first or a replacement?: Ketuvot 43b-44a
Is the additional amount binding from kiddushin, or is it only given out of his desire to fully marry her, such that it is only effective upon marriage: Ketuvot 43b-44a, 47a-b, 54b; Bava Metzia 17b-18a
If the additional amount is only binding from marriage, what happens if they wed but she was a niddah during the chuppah and then the husband died, or the chuppah was normal but the husband died before they could consummate the marriage?: Ketuvot 56a
Intentionally under-valuing physical items given by the groom a tosefet, when recording it in the ketubah: Ketuvot 66b per Tosafot וכשחתן
Following local practice in setting the value of the dowry (nedunya) a woman brings into a marriage, or the sum a husband pledges for the ketubah: Ketuvot 66b
The tremendous nedunya (dowry) of the daughter of Nakdimon ben Gurion, and the tosefet ketubah from her husband's side: Ketuvot 66b
Rights of a bride's parent to the ketubah money
Parental rights to a minor child's property
Rights to a minor daughter's ketubah if she enters a kiddushin or marriage which ends in divorce/widowing: Ketuvot 43b
Rights to a minor daughter's ketubah from kiddushin or marriage following the end of her first kiddushin/marriage: Ketuvot 43b
Losing the right to the ketubah
A wife who takes vows: Ketuvot 71a
A wife who vows not to lend out kitchen equipment or to make nice clothing for her children: Ketuvot 72a
What-Ifs and Problems in collecting ketubah money
If a husband designates movable property for collection of the ketubah, need the wife swear that nothing else was designated in order to collect them?: Ketuvot 55a
If a husband designates movable property for collection of the ketubah, and the movable items are lost, need the wife swear that nothing else was designated in order to collect them?: Ketuvot 55a
If a husband designates land by marking all of its borders, or only one border, need the wife swear that nothing else was designated in order to collect them?: Ketuvot 55a
Giving a collateral of movable items for the ketubah until after Shabbat: Ketuvot 7a
May a woman claim ketubah money if she was married to a man who was rabbinically prohibited to her: Bava Metzia 67a
Is a receipt written for a ketubah which is cancelled or paid up: Ketuvot 16b, 56a; Sotah 7b
If a rapist marries his victim and then divorces her at her insistence, is there a ketubah payment to discourage him from doing things to upset her?: Ketuvot 39b, 54a
What happens if a woman produces two ketubah documents, one for the normal 200 zuz and one for 300 zuz, and wishes to claim property for payment of both?: Ketuvot 43b-44a
Are Arabian camels, dresses from Bei Michsi, sacks from Rudya and ropes from Kimchonya, commodities or like land, such that a woman may collect her ketubah from them: Ketuvot 67a per Tosafot גמלים
Viewing money-filled wallets from Mechoza as commodities or as land - to allow collection of the ketubah from them - based on whether people keep them or trade them for land: Ketuvot 67a
Can a man object that he thought his wife was a betulah when he married her, if:
...his wife was at least twelve and a half years old when they married?: Ketuvot 36a-b
...his wife had experienced a physical trauma [מוכת עץ] in that part of the body, likely to eliminate the betulim, before the wedding?: Ketuvot 36a
...his wife had a prior marriage, but without sexual intercourse: Ketuvot 11b
...his wife had performed miun from a previous marriage: Bava Metzia 67a
...his wife is an aylonit: Ketuvot 36a; Bava Metzia 67a
...his wife is blind: Ketuvot 36a, 36b
...his wife is a shotah or chereshet: Ketuvot 36a
