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משום דרב זביד גברא רבה הוא, אפכיתו ליה לדינא עילויה? האמר רב כהנא: מיבעיא בעי לה רבא, ולא פשיט?! השתא דלא אתמר לא הכי ולא הכי, תפסה — לא מפקינן מינה, לא תפסה — לא יהבינן לה.
Because Rav Zevid is a great man, and due to his piety and humility he would not challenge the ruling, you twist the judgment against him? Didn’t Rav Kahana say: Rava raises a dilemma with regard to this issue and did not resolve it, so how did you rule that she may retain her worn clothes? The Talmud summarizes: Now that it was not stated and concluded this way or that way, if she seized an item of her possessions, we do not take it away from her, but if she did not seize it, we do not give it to her.
ומשהינן לה תריסר ירחי שתא אגיטא, ובהנך תריסר ירחי שתא לית לה מזוני מבעל.
The Talmud adds another halakha with regard to a rebellious woman: And we delay her bill of divorce for 12 months of the year and do not give her a bill of divorce until then. And during those 12 months of the year she does not receive sustenance from her husband.
אמר רב טובי בר קיסנא אמר שמואל: כותבין אגרת מרד על ארוסה, ואין כותבין אגרת מרד על שומרת יבם. מיתיבי: אחת לי ארוסה ונשואה, אפילו נדה, אפילו חולה, ואפילו שומרת יבם!
§ Rav Tuvi bar Kisna said that Shmuel said: The court writes a letter of rebellion about a betrothed woman who is rebelling against her husband. This letter is a court order to deduct value from the marriage contract. But it does not write a letter of rebellion about a widow awaiting her yavam who does not want to enter into levirate marriage. The Talmud raises an objection from a baraita: It is the same to me if she is a betrothed woman or a married woman, and even if she is a menstruating woman, and even if she is ill, and even if she is a widow awaiting her yavam.