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הכותב לאשתו: ״דין ודברים אין לי בנכסיך״ — הרי זה אוכל פרות בחייה, ואם מתה יורשה. אם כן, למה כתב לה ״דין ודברים אין לי בנכסיך״? שאם מכרה ונתנה — קיים.
Mishnah: One who writes for his wife in a document the declaration: I have no legal dealings or involvement with your property, thereby relinquishing his rights to her possessions, may nevertheless consume the produce of her property in her lifetime. And if she dies before him, he inherits from her. If this is so, if he still retains his rights, why would he write for her: I have no legal dealings or involvement with your property? The result of this declaration is that if she sold or gave away her property, the transaction is binding, and he cannot claim it.
כתב לה ״דין ודברים אין לי בנכסיך ובפירותיהן״ — הרי זה אינו אוכל פרות בחייה, ואם מתה — יורשה. רבי יהודה אומר: לעולם אוכל פירי פירות. עד שיכתוב לה ״דין ודברים אין לי בנכסיך ובפירותיהן ובפירי פירותיהן עד עולם״.
If he writes for her: I have no legal dealings or involvement with your property or with its produce, he may not consume the produce of her property during her lifetime, but if she dies he still retains the right to inherit from her. R' Yehuda says: He always consumes the produce of the produce. Although he has waived his rights to consume the produce itself, it becomes her usufruct property, whose yield belongs to him. He remains entitled to the produce of the produce until he writes for her: I have no legal dealings or involvement with your property, or with its produce, or with the produce of its produce forever.
כתב לה ״דין ודברים אין לי בנכסיך ובפירותיהן ובפירי פירותיהן בחייך ובמותך״ — אינו אוכל פירות בחייה, ואם מתה — אינו יורשה. רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר: אם מתה — יירשנה, מפני שמתנה על מה שכתוב בתורה, וכל המתנה על מה שכתוב בתורה — תנאו בטל.
If he writes for her: I have no legal dealings or involvement with your property or with its produce, or with the produce of its produce, in your lifetime and after your death, he may not consume the produce of her property in her lifetime. And if she dies, he does not inherit from her. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: If she dies, he does inherit from her, because he stipulates counter to that which is written in the Torah. According to Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, a husband inherits from his wife by Torah law, and whoever stipulates counter to that which is written in the Torah, his stipulation is void.