Jastrow: כְּתוּבָּה

כְּתוּבָּה f. (preced. wds.) writ, deed, esp. marriage contract, containing, among other things, the settlement of a certain amount due do the wife on her husband’s death or on being divorced; K’thubah, the wife’s settlement, widowhood. [For the formula of the marriage contract, v. Keth. IV, 7—12.] Y. Yeb. XV, 14ᵈ ב"ש עבדי כ׳ מדרש the Shammaites made the wording of the marriage contract the text for legal interpretation; מספר כְּתוּבָּתָהּ נלמוד וכ׳ from her marriage contract we learn (that she must receive her widowhood), for he writes to her &c. Ib. ר׳ מאיר עבד כ׳ וכ׳ R. M. made the formula of the deed of sale the text &c. (v. B. Mets. IX, 3).—Keth. I, 2 בתולה כְּתוּבָּתָהּ מאתים the widowhood of one marrying as a virgin is two hundred Zuz. Sabb. 14ᵇ; 16ᵇ שמעין … תיקן כ׳ לאשה Simon b. Shetaḥ introduced the written marriage contract (with the promise of a widowhood, in place of a deposit of the widowhood in securities); Keth. 82ᵇ תיקן כל נכסיו אחראין לכתובתה ordained that the contract must contain a clause making all his landed estate a mortgage for her widowhood; Y. ib. VIII, 32ᵇ, sq. Bab. ib. 10ᵃ כְּתוּבַּת אשה מן התורה the widowhood endowment is intimated in the Torah. Ib. כתובת אלמנה אינה וכ׳ the endowment of one that married as a widow is not Biblical. Ib. 56ᵃ כ׳ דרבנן the widowhood is a Rabbinical institution. Ib. IV, 2 כְּתוּבָּתָהּ שלו her widowhood belongs to him (her father). Ib. IX, 8 הפוגמת כתובתה, v. פָּגַם. Ib. 9 … הוציאה גט גובה כתובתה if she produces evidence of divorce but has no contract to show, she is entitled to her settlement; a. v. fr.—Pl. כְּתוּבּוֹת. Ib. שני … כ׳ גובה שתי כ׳ if she produces two letters of divorce (evidence of having been divorced and remarried to her former husband and again divorced) and two contracts, she is entitled to two widowhoods; a. fr.—כְּתוּבּוֹת K’thuboth, name of a treatise of Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Y’rushalmi, of the Order of Nashim.