Ketubot, Daf 76

The JCast Network Total Feed · Sep 20, 2022

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 76.

The feminist critique of kiddushin is that it is ultimately about treating women as chattel—the sages are anxious to know whether the kinyan or purchase was valid, or whether it was a false sale. Daf 76 gives an example of just this, comparing the purchase of a deformed bride to a property exchange between the owner of a cow and the owner of a donkey. On page B it is partially redeemed by the adage that kiddushin were not designed to be invalidated, and it is only in cases of doubt…