Commentary for Gittin 27:3
וכי תימא ה"נ א"כ נתת דבריך לשיעורין
And if you say they do, then you apply different standards to different people? — The truth is, said Mar Zutra, that there are three laws which the Rabbis have laid down arbitrarily without [giving] a reason. One is this one. A second is the one laid down by Rab Judah in the name of Samuel: If a [dying] man assigns in writing all his property to his wife, he only makes her a trustee for it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And not absolute owner. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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