Musar for Gittin 69:11

ההיא דאתאי לקמיה דרב הונא אמר לה מה אעביד ליך דרב לא מגבי כתובה לארמלתא אמרה ליה מידי הוא טעמא אלא דלמא נקיטנא מידי מכתובתי חי ה' צבאות אם נהניתי מכתובתי כלום אמר רב הונא מודה רב בקופצת

A certain woman appealed to Rabbah son of R. Huna [to enforce payment of her kethubah]. He said to her: What can I do for you seeing that Rab would not enforce payment of a kethubah and my father also would not enforce payment of a kethubah to a widow? She said to him: At least grant me maintenance. He replied: You are not entitled to maintenance either, since Rab Judah has said in the name of Samuel: If a woman claims her kethubah in the Beth din, she has no claim to maintenance.9

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

The next difficulty is: How could a righteous son loved by his father not inform his father that he was alive and save him an untold amount of anguish? Even if Joseph had found himself at the end of the world, instead of in a country bordering on the land of Canaan, was he not duty bound to let his father know that he was alive instead of letting him suffer pain for twenty-two years?

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