Commentary for Ketubot 135:11

תנן וחכ"א פעמים שאדם עני והעשיר או עשיר והעני אלא שמין הנכסים ונותנין לה מאי עני ומאי עשיר אי נימא עני עני בנכסים עשיר עשיר בנכסים מכלל דתנא קמא סבר אפילו עשיר והעני כדמעיקרא יהבינן לה הא לית ליה

We learned: The Sages say: sometimes a man is poor and becomes rich or rich and becomes poor. Rather the estate should evaluated and [the appropriate amount] given to her. Now what is meant by “poor” and “rich”? If we say that “poor” means poor in assets, and “rich” means rich in assets, the inference [would be] that the first tanna holds the opinion that even when a man was rich and became poor she is given as much as before; but he has none [to give]!

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