Mesorat%20hashas for Ketubot 85:7

למימרא דבתו עדיפא ליה מאלמנתו והאמר רבי אבא א"ר יוסי עשו אלמנה אצל הבת כבת אצל אחין בנכסין מועטין

That is to say that a man’s daughter is preferable to him than his widow? But did not R. Abba said in the name of R. Yose: They made a widow and her daughter like a daughter and her brothers in the case of a small estate: just as in the case of the relationship between a daughter and her brothers, the daughter is maintained while the brothers can go begging at [people’s] doors, so also in the case of the relationship between a widow and her daughter, the widow is maintained and the daughter can go begging at [people’s] doors.

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