Commentary for Ketubot 173:2

אזל רב מרדכי אמרה לשמעתא קמיה דרב אשי בשלמא למ"ד על הפוגמת כתובתה דמסקא אדעתה דלמא מצטרכי לי זוזי ושקילנא מכתובתאי וא"ל כתוב לי דלא משבעת לי אלא למ"ד על אפוטרופיא שנעשית בחיי בעלה איהי מי הות ידעה דמותיב לה אפוטרופיא דאמרה לי' כתוב לי דלא משבעת לי

Mordecai went to R. Ashi and said the following argument in front of him: It makes sense for the one who holds [that the oath] was on a woman who impairs her ketubah for it might occur to the woman that she will sometime be in need of money and would draw it from her ketubah and she would therefore tell her husband, “Write for me that you will not impose an oath upon me.” But according to the one who holds [that the oath] was on a woman who during the lifetime of her husband was made guardian [of his affairs], how could she know that he would set her up as guardian that she should say to him, “Write for me that you will not impose an oath upon me.”

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