Commentary for Yevamot 173:7

אלא הרי שמסר האב לשלוחי הבעל או שמסרו שלוחי האב לשלוחי הבעל ונתארמלה או נתגרשה בדרך היאך אני קורא בה בית אביה של זו או בית בעלה של זו אלא לומר לך כיון שיצאה שעה אחת מרשות האב שוב אינו יכול להפר

Is she not free from the authority of her father and also from that of her husband!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And since none of them could in consequence annul her vows, it is obvious that such vows stand against her. What need, then, was there for the text of Num. XXX, 10? ');">²²</span> The fact is that where the father had entrusted [his daughter] to the representatives of the husband, or where the representatives of the father had entrusted her to the representatives of the husband, and on the way<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To her husband's home. ');">²³</span> she became a widow or was divorced, [it would not have been known] whether she was to be described as of<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'how I read about her'. ');">²⁴</span> the house of her father<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since she has not reached the house of her husband and has consequently not yet passed entirely out of her father's authority. Hence her father would still have the power of invalidating her vows. ');">²⁵</span>

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