יב אלא מסתברא דכי קא ממעט
12 So here too, [you must admit] that it is written in reference to annulment of vows!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not kiddushin.');"><sup>15</sup></span> And should you argue, We may learn therefrom<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Just as a father can annul his daughter's vows, so has he a title to her betrothal money.');"><sup>16</sup></span> - but civil law<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'money'.');"><sup>17</sup></span> cannot be deduced from ritual law.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'prohibition'. The title to betrothal money is purely a question of civil law, whereas the binding character of vows and their annulment belong to ritual law.');"><sup>18</sup></span> And should you say, we may learn it from kenas<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'fine'; v. Glos. If a man seduces, violates, or slanders a na'arah, he must pay a fixed fine to her father: Ex. XXII, 15f; Deut. XXII, 13-19; 28f. Hence in the case of kiddushin too the money belongs to her father.');"><sup>19</sup></span> - but civil law cannot be deduced from kenas?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is a general principle. Kenas is not regarded as equitable indemnification for loss sustained, for then the amounts would vary, but as a Biblical decree. As such, it stands in a category by itself, and ordinary civil law cannot be compared with it.');"><sup>20</sup></span> And should you say: We may learn it from [the indemnity payable for her] shame and depreciation<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Besides the fixed kenas, the seducer must pay her father for the shame she sustained and her loss in social standing, which has a monetary value. These are ordinary payments for injury inflicted and therefore provide a basis for analogy.');"><sup>21</sup></span> - yet shame and depreciation are different, since her father has an interest therein.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For her father could inflict these on her by marrying her to a man suffering from repulsive disfigurement.');"><sup>22</sup></span> - But [answer thus:] it is logical that when a limitation is made,