Reference for Kiddushin 38:4
אילימא משל לרבי יוסי ברבי יהודה הא אם יש שהות ביום כדי לעשות עמו שוה פרוטה מקודשת ואם לאו לא
R'Jose son of R'Judah said: If there is sufficien time In that day for her to do work to the value of a perutah, she is betrothed; if not, she is not betrothed. This may be compared to a man who says to a woman, 'Be thou betrothed unto me from now and after thirty days,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., kiddushin begin at this moment, but are not completed until thirty days, as though it were a long ceremony requiring all this time.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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