Commentary for Bava Batra 264:5

איתמר נמי אמר רב יוסף בר מניומי אמר רב נחמן כיון שעשאה שותף בין הבנים אבדה כתובתה

Raba enquired: What<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'how'. ');">¹⁵</span> [is the law] in [the case of] a person in good health?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who assigned his property, in writing, to his sons and allotted some fraction of land to his wife. ');">¹⁶</span> Shall we say that this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The law that she forfeits her kethubah. ');">¹⁷</span> is only in [the case of] a dying man since she knows that he has no more property<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And a dying man is certainly not likely to acquire any new possessions. Hence, her silence may be interpreted as consent. ');">¹⁸</span>

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