Commentary for Yevamot 223:8

אמר ליה וכי מפני שאנו כופין ומבקשין תיאסר צרה:

and they also receive their <i>kethubah</i>: One<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The wife of a priest. ');">²⁰</span> who declares, 'I am unclean for you',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Through outrage. A priest is forbidden to live with a wife in such circumstances. ');">²¹</span> or 'heaven is between me and you',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A declaration that may be made by a woman whom her husband deprives of her connubial rights. The meaning might be: 'The distance of the heavens lies between us' or 'heaven knows (if no man does) our miserable relationship'. ');">²²</span>

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