Related for Ketubot 134:18
רבי חנינא הוה ההוא עניא דהוה רגיל לשדורי ליה ארבעה זוזי כל מעלי שבתא יומא חד שדרינהו ניהליה ביד דביתהו אתאי אמרה ליה לא צריך מאי חזית שמעי דהוה קאמרי ליה במה אתה סועד
Hanina had a poor person in his neighborhood to whom he would regularly send four zuz every Shabbat eve. One day he sent the money through his wife. She came back and told him, “He doesn’t need it.” “What did you see?” [She replied:]. “I heard that he was asked, ‘On what will you dine;
Tosefta Peah
A poor person who gave a perutah (a small copper coin) to the communal fund and a piece of bread to the charity plate, we accept it from him. If he doesn't give, we don't require him to give. [If] they gave him new [clothes] and he returned to them [worn out] clothes, we accept it from him. If he didn't give [anything], we do not require him to give. [If] he was used to silk clothes, we give him silk clothes (cf. Y. Peah VIII.7.5). [If he was accustomed to having] a ma'ah (מָעָה not מטה, one-sixth of a denar/zuz, see Ket. 5:9, per Kulp), we give him a ma'ah; [similarly, if he is accustomed to having] dough, we give him dough, bread we give him bread, to be fed inside his mouth we feed him inside his mouth, as it says (Deut. 15:8), "[pledge to him (the needy one)] sufficient for his lack that is lacking to him (לו)." Even a slave, even a horse. "To him (לו)" -- this [refers to] a wife, as it says (Gen. 2:18), "I will make for him (לו) a help-mate opposite him." It so happened with Hillel the Elder, he obtained for a poor person of noble descent a horse upon which to ride and a servant to run in front of him (Ketubot 67b:3, Steinsaltz tr.). And moreover, it so happened with the people of the Galilee that they would bring a Sepphoris pound of meat to one old man every day (cf. Y. Peah VIII.7.4), Guggenheimer tr.).
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Tosefta Ketubot
[If there is both] a fatherless boy and girl want to marry, they should marry off the fatherless girl first and then marry off the fatherless by since a woman's shame is greater than a man's. A fatherless boy that wants to marry, they should rent a house for him, lay out a bed for him, and afterwards marry him off to a wife, as it said, "Enough for whatever he lacks, לו" (Devarim 15:8): לו is a wife, as it is said there: "I will make לו, a helper for him" (Bereishit 2:18)—just as לו said there is a wife, so too לו said here is a wife. (The derash is you first give him whatever he lacks monetarily, then give him a wife based on the order of the verse).
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Tosefta Ketubot
A wife's ketubah [is collected by her] from the worst property—words of Rabbi Yehudah. Rabbi Shimon says: Why did they say that a wife's ketubah [is collected] from the worst property? [Because] more than a man wants to marry, a woman wants to be married. Furthermore, a woman's shame is greater than that of a man. If so, she shouldn't have a ketubah at all! Rather, [it is because] a wife is divorced willingly or unwillingly, but a man only divorces willingly.
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