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Kesubos 4:2-3

Kesubos 4:2

If a man gives his minor daughter in betrothal and the fiancé divorces her, then he gives her in betrothal to someone else, who dies, the value of the kesubos go to the father (because the girl never left his domain). If he married her off and the husband divorced her, then he married her off and the second husband died, the value of the kesubos go to the girl. Rabbi Yehuda says that the first goes to the father but the Sages replied that once the father gave her in marriage, he ceases to have authority over her.

Kesubos 4:3

If a woman and her minor daughter convert together and the daughter subsequently commits adultery, she is liable to the penalty of strangulation (rather than stoning, which would be the penalty of a girl born Jewish). She is not taken to the door of her father’s house, nor does her husband pay her father in the case of slander. If she was conceived and born after her mother converted, she is treated as a girl born Jewish in every regard. If a girl has a father but he doesn’t have a door to his house, or if she has a door to her father’s house but no father, she is still liable to stoning because this part of the process is a mitzvah but not an indispensable component.

Author: Rabbi Jack Abramowitz