במאי עסקינן אילימא שמתה מי אית לה כתובה ואלא שמת הוא אמאי מחזרת לו את השאר ונימא תנו לי בעלי ואשמח עמו ואלא באשת ישראל שזינתה ובמאי אי ברצון מי אית לה כתובה ואלא באונס מישרא שריא ליה
with a talent,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sixty maneh (cf. R. Gersh. a.l.).
');"><sup>25</sup></span> [if] a virgin she is entitled to two hundred [<i>zuz</i>]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As her kethubah, in addition to the talent (the token of betrothal) which she received. This shows that R. Meir holds that a token of betrothal is unreturnable under any circumstances. (R. Gersh.).
');"><sup>26</sup></span> and [to a] <i>maneh</i> [if] a widow; these are the words.of R. Meir. R. Judah said: A virgin is entitled to two hundred [<i>zuz</i>] and a widow [to] a <i>maneh</i>. and the remainder<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the talent, after the amount of the kethubah had been deducted. This shows that according to R. Judah a token of betrothal is returnable under certain conditions.
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Tosefta Pesachim
In a place where their custom is to return the betrothal money [if the betrothed man or woman died before the marriage was consummated], they return it. In a place where their custom is not to return the betrothal money, they do not return it. In a place where their custom is to stand up and sit down [for eulogies at a funeral], they stand up and sit down. In a place where their custom is to not do it, they do not do. [Even where the custom is to stand up and sit down for eulogies,] one does not stand up and sit down more than seven times. In a place where their custom is to greet mourners on the Sabbath, they greet them. In a place where their custom is not to greet, they do not greet. In a place where the custom is for the mourners to walk behind the dead [in a funeral procession], they walk [behind them]. In a place where the custom is to not walk, they do not walk. In a place where their custom is to light candles on Yom Kippur Eve, they light candles. In a place where their custom is not to light, they do not light. Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, we light [candles] in inns and in mikvehs [on Yom Kippur Eve]. Those of whom it was said "they light," and those of whom it was said, "they do not light," they only said it in order [that people not become] accustomed to sin.
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