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אמרה ליה: מן יהיב לן מכותבות דיריחו ואכלנא ביה. נפל עלה חורבה, ומתה. אמרו חכמים: הואיל ולא נכנס אחריה אלא לבודקה, מתה – אינו יורשה.
She said to him: Who will give us of the dates of Jericho that I should eat them, hinting that she smelled the date he had brought with him. The ruin collapsed upon her and she died. The rabbis said: Since he went into the ruin after her only to check her sense of smell, and not for the purpose of consummating their marriage, if she dies, he does not inherit from her, as the marriage was not effected, and a man does not inherit from his betrothed.
סבלונות מועטין שתשתמש בהן בבית אביה וכו׳. יתיב רבין סבא קמיה דרב פפא, ויתיב וקאמר: בין שמתה היא ובין שמת הוא, הדר הוא – סבלונות הדרי, מאכל ומשתה לא הדר. הדרא בה איהי – הדרא אפילו כישא דירקא. אמר רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע: ושמין להן דמי בשר בזול. עד כמה ״בזול״? עד תילתא.
§ The Mishnah teaches: If he sent a few presents for her to use while in her father’s house, they are not collected. Ravin the Elder was sitting before Rav Pappa and he was sitting and saying: Whether she died, or whether he died, or whether he retracted his agreement to the betrothal and divorced her, the presents return to the betrothed man or his heirs, but food and drink do not return. If she retracted her agreement to the betrothal and requested a divorce, even a bundle of vegetables returns to the betrothed man. Rav Huna, son of Rav Yehoshua, said: When the presents are returned, the court appraises for the betrothed woman’s family the sum that they must repay for any meat he gave her, according to a reduced assessment of the value of the meat and not according to the price the betrothed man paid. How much less is the reduced assessment? Up to 1/3rd less than he paid.