Ketubot 40B

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the needlecraft of a tailor, a common, less valuable skill, is the fine also 30 sela? Rather, just as with regard to the slaves, the sum is not dependent on the standing of the victim, so too with regard to a woman who was raped.

Rather, R' Zeira said a different proof: Had two men engaged in forced sex with her, one vaginal sex, and one anal sex, they will say: If one who engaged in forced sex with an untainted virgin pays 50 sela, does one who engaged in forced sex with her when she is tainted, i.e., after she has engage

Rather, Abaye said a different proof. The verse says: “50 shekels of silver…because he tormented her” (Deuteronomy 22:29); these 50 sela are the fine paid because he tormented her. From which it may be inferred that there are the additional payments of humiliation and degradation beyond that sum m

The Talmud asks: And say that these additional payments are paid to her? The Talmud answers that the verse says: “Between a father and his daughter, being in her young womanhood, in her father’s house” (Numbers 30:17), from which it is derived that all profits of her young womanhood go to her fath

The Talmud asks: However, with regard to that which Rav Huna said that Rav said: From where is it derived that the handiwork of the daughter goes to her father? It is as it is stated: “And if a man sells his daughter as a female slave” (Exodus 21:7), juxtaposing his daughter to a female slave: Jus