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לרשות הבעל לנשואין. מסר האב לשלוחי הבעל — הרי היא ברשות הבעל. הלך האב עם שלוחי הבעל, או שהלכו שלוחי האב עם שלוחי הבעל — הרי היא ברשות האב. מסרו שלוחי האב לשלוחי הבעל — הרי היא ברשות הבעל.
her husband’s authority in marriage via the wedding canopy. If the father delivered his daughter to the husband’s messengers to bring her to her husband and the wedding canopy, once she has been handed over she is under the husband’s authority. However, if the father went with the husband’s messengers, or if the father’s messengers went with the husband’s messengers, she is still under the father’s authority, as he has not fully delivered her to the husband’s messengers. If her father sent her with his own messengers and the father’s messengers delivered the woman to the husband’s messengers, from that moment onwards she is under her husband’s authority.
גמ׳ מאי לעולם? לאפוקי ממשנה ראשונה. דתנן: הגיע זמן ולא נישאו — אוכלות משלו ואוכלות בתרומה. קא משמע לן, לעולם.
Talmud: The Mishnah taught that a daughter always remains under her father’s authority until she has fully entered her husband’s jurisdiction. The Talmud asks: What is the significance of the term: Always, in the Mishnah? The Talmud explains: This comes to exclude the opinion stated in the initial version of the Mishnah. As we learned in a Mishnah (57a): If the time that the groom designated for the wedding arrived, and the wedding was postponed, and they were not married, the brides are entitled to eat from his food and, if he is a priest, eat teruma, like married women. The Mishnah here teaches us that the halakha is not in accordance with this earlier ruling cited in that Mishnah. Rather, they are always under their father’s authority until they actually enter the wedding canopy.
מסר האב לשלוחי הבעל, הרי היא ברשות הבעל וכו׳. אמר רב: מסירתה לכל, חוץ מתרומה. ורב אסי אמר: אף לתרומה.
§ The Mishnah taught that if the father delivered his daughter to the husband’s messengers, she is under the husband’s authority, unless the father or his messengers accompanied them. Rav said: When her father delivers her she leaves his jurisdiction in all respects, apart from the issue of partaking of teruma. Even if her husband is a priest, if she is not from a family of priests, she may not partake of teruma until she is fully married. And Rav Asi said that once she has been delivered to the husband’s messengers she is under her husband’s authority even with regard to teruma.