Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Kiddushin 91:10

רבי אמי אמר לעולם אסיפא ומאי עד שיהא באחת מהן שוה פרוטה עד שיהא באחרונה שוה פרוטה

Shall we say, to the first clause - why particularly if she eats them; even if she lays them down it is also thus, since he says: 'BE THOU BETROTHED UNTO ME WITH THIS ONE'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that each statement is separate; v, p. 221, n. 1.');"><sup>14</sup></span> But if to the second clause - [and that] even [if there is a perutah's worth] in the first [only]? But it is a debt!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he says: 'Be thou betrothed unto me with this one and this one, etc.,' and she eats them one by one, his statement must be considered as a whole. Now, as soon as she eats one she cannot be betrothed by it, since his statement was as yet incomplete, and it becomes a debt, which cannot effect kiddushin.');"><sup>15</sup></span>

Daf Shevui to Kiddushin

R. Ammi says that it can refer to the last clause of the mishnah as long as we read it as saying that the last date he gives her has to be worth a perutah. This last date is not a loan, it is the date on which she must agree to be betrothed. This date, and not the earlier dates, must be worth a perutah.
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