Commentary for Yevamot 131:18

איתמר המכנסת שום לבעלה היא אומרת כלי אני נוטלת והוא אומר דמים אני נותן הדין עם מי רב יהודה אמר

she had not made of herself a profaned woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Halachah (v. Glos.) through ber forbidden marriage. ');">⁴⁰</span> while now<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Having married a High Priest to whom a widow is forbidden. ');">⁴¹</span> she has made herself a profaned woman.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Halachah (v. Glos.) through ber forbidden marriage. ');">⁴⁰</span> This explanation is quite satisfactory in the case of a priestly widow;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 443, n. 7. ');">⁴²</span> what explanations however, is there in the case of a widow who is the daughter of an Israelite?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The error mentioned cannot occur in her case; but as our Mishnah draws no distinction between the two, the question remains: Why should not her melog slaves be permitted to eat terumah? ');">⁴³</span> — The Rabbis made no distinction between one widow and another.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'in her widowhood'. Were the feeding permitted in the case of the one, the other might erroneously be presumed to come under the same law. ');">⁴⁴</span> It was stated: If a wife: who brought to her husband<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As zon barzel property (v. Glos.). ');">⁴⁵</span> appraised goods,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shum (v. Glos.). V. Ket. Sonc. ed. p 401. n. 11. In consideration of which he guarantees her a specified sum in her kethubah, which is recoverable by her at his death, or earlier if she is divorced. ');">⁴⁶</span> demands,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When she claims her kethubah. v. supra n. 9. ');">⁴⁷</span> 'I will accept only my own goods',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the actual objects she had brought to her husband. ');">⁴⁸</span> and he replies 'I am only paying their value'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In accordance with the appraisement in the kethubah. ');">⁴⁹</span> — in whose favour is judgment to be given? Rab Judah said:

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