Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Ketubot 161:3

אמר ליה הכי קא אמינא אח אני יורש את אשתו אין אני קובר ואי משום כתובה לא ניתנה כתובה לגבות מחיים

Rava responded: This is what I am saying: [The brother could say], “I am inheriting my brother; I am not burying his wife; and if [I am expected to bury her] because of the ketubah, a ketubah is not payable during [the husband’s] lifetime”?

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