Shulchan Arukh Even HaEzer · Siman 79
Shulchan Arukh Even HaEzer 79 — English translation
Translation: Sefaria Community Translation. Section numbers match the Hebrew text above.
- 1How is he required to pay for her healing? If she became ill, he must heal her (pay her medical costs), whether healing that has a determinate cost or an indeterminate cost. But his widow is not healed from his estate except for healing which has no determinate cost, which is similar to food [payments].
- 2If the heirs wish to specify a cost with the doctor, such that [her healing] will have a determinate cost and they will be relieved of payment, they are permitted to do so.
- 3If a woman contracts a lasting disease, he is able to say to her that the ketuba can be assumed if she heals herself or the ketuba can be absolved and give her the ketuba , but this is not proper behavior because it is not derech eretz .
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חיוב רפואתה. ובו ג סעיפים:
רפואתה כיצד לקתה חייב לרפאותה בין רפואה שיש לה קצבה בין רפואה שאין לה קצבה אבל אלמנתו אינה מתרפאת מנכסיו אלא ברפואה שאין לה קצבה שהוא דומה למזונות:
רצו היורשין לקצוב עם הרופא כדי שיהיה לה קצבה ויפטרו ממנה הרשות בידם:
אם ראה הבעל שהחולי ארוך יכול לומר לה הרי כתובתיך מונחת או רפאי עצמך מכתובתיך או הריני מגרשך ונותן כתובה ואין ראוי לעשות כן מפני דרך ארץ:
Even HaEzer Siman 79
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