About this episode
A case is brought to show that we don't hold like Rabbi Shimon regarding his opinion that a woman who collects part of her ketuba cannot collect food payments anymore. If a woman sells her late husband's property to collect from it her ketuba money and she does not make the sale in front of a court, does she need to swear to the orphans (there is a debate about what exactly she would need to swear)? Why didn't they ask whether she needs to publicly announce the sale (to ensure that she gets a good price)? An unsuccessful attempt is made to try the first question. Even without having any answers, the Gemara tells us how we rule on both these issues. If the woman sold the land for more or less money than its value, what is the law? How does this law correspond to a similar case regarding a messenger? What if she sold more land than what was owed to her? A question is asked regarding a similar case regarding a messenger who sold more land than he was asked to. First, an attempt is made to get the answer from a Mishna in Meila 20a but is rejected. Then they try to derive the answer from the case in our Mishna of a woman who sold more than what she was owed.