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ושחרור — מפקיעין מידי שעבוד.
and the manumission of a slave release the property from a lien. If someone placed an asset under a lien for his debt and subsequently consecrated it; or if the asset under lien is leavened bread and the festival of Passover arrived; or if the asset is a slave and he freed him, the lien is released, and the creditor must claim his debt from the debtor’s other property. In the case of the robe as well, because it was placed over the corpse, it was consecrated for the dead. Consequently, it is prohibited to derive benefit from it. Therefore, it is released to the woman from under the lien.
אמר רב יהודה: הכניסה לו שני כלים באלף זוז, ושבחו ועמדו על שני אלפים. אחד נוטלתו בכתובתה, ואחד נותנת דמים ונוטלתו, מפני שבח בית אביה.
Rav Yehuda said: If the wife brought with her into the marriage two belongings of guaranteed investment worth 1,000 dinars, and they appreciated until they stood at 2,000, one of them she collects as payment of her marriage contract, as it is now worth her dowry of 1,000 dinars. And as for the other one, she pays its monetary value and takes it from her husband because it is an asset of her paternal family.
מאי קא משמע לן — שבח בית אביה דידה הוי? הא אמרה רב יהודה חדא זימנא! מהו דתימא: הני מילי היכא דמטיא למשקל בכתובתה, אבל מיתן דמי ומישקל — לא, קא משמע לן.
The Talmud asks: What is he teaching us? Is it that assets of her paternal family are hers? Rav Yehuda already said this once, in his previous statement. The Talmud answers: The latter statement was necessary as well, lest you say that this applies only where she comes to collect her marriage contract, which is rightfully hers, but to give money and take assets that are worth beyond what her husband owes her, you might say that she may not do so, although the property in question is an asset of her paternal family. Rav Yehuda therefore teaches us that she may take all of the assets of her paternal family and pay for what they are worth beyond her husband’s debt to her.