Commentary for Kiddushin 23:16

אמרה ליה אימיה והא ההוא יומא דקדשה הוה ביה שוה פרוטה אמר לה לאו כל כמינך דאסרת לה אבתרא

Now, R'Hisda was sitting and appraising it: if worth a perutah, it is well;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The kiddushin is valid.');">²⁵</span> if not, not. Now, if not worth a perutah, it is not well? But Samuel said: 'We fear [etc.]'! - R'Hisda did not accept Samuel's [view]. Said his mother to him: But on the day he betrothed her it was worth a perutah!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though by the time you came to value it, it had depreciated.');">²⁶</span> It does not rest entirely with you, replied he, to render her forbidden to the other man.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To whom one had, in the meantime, become betrothed. I.e., your evidence cannot be accepted.');">²⁷</span>

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