Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Danny Nevins looks at Masechet Ketubot, Daf 78.

Today we begin Chapter 8 of Ketubot, HaIsha Shenafla, which addresses cases in which a woman inherits property around the time of her engagement or marriage. Rabbinic law gives husbands ownership of their wife’s property acquired during the marriage, but property that she brings into the marriage belongs to her, though the man may manage it and use its income. Rabban Gamliel is embarrassed by the established law that a married woman may not sell her own property and limits the application of the law. At the end of the Daf, we hear a story of a woman who hides property from her second husband by deeding it to her daughter prior to marriage. Once she is divorced from the second husband, the mother wants her property back from the daughter. Rav Nahman recognizes her original deed as conditional and rips apart the contract. The exilarch supports Rav Nahman and in this way protects the woman who found a way to keep control of her own property.

To view the text of Ketubot, Daf 78 on Sefaria, please click here.

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

This podcast is a collaboration with The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.