Related%20passage for Kiddushin 38:8

משל לאומר לאשה הרי את מקודשת לי לאחר שלשים יום ובא אחר וקידשה בתוך שלשים יום שמקודשת לשני משל למאן

- I might have thought, But he [her master] did not say 'from now';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Therefore in the analogous case, even if he says: 'Thou art betrothed unto me after thirty days,' and another man betroths her within the thirty days, she is betrothed to the first.');">⁷</span> hence we are informed [that it is not so].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The above explanation follows Rashi. Tosaf. explains it quite differently: This may be compared etc. Hence here too, if another man betroths her before her master designates her, she is not betrothed to the second, and the subsequent designation of her master takes effect, because the original money was given for kiddushin. 'On whose . . she is not betrothed': which proves that he must actually give her something (sc. her labour, which is worth a perutah) at the end, when he designates her; therefore another man's intervention is valid, and she is betrothed to the second. 'Said R. Aha . . the Rabbis:' just as there, so here too, and the intervention of another man before the master's designation is not valid. The rest is similar to Rashi's explanation.');">⁸</span>

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