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    Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 26

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    Even HaEzer Siman 26

    Even HaEzer Siman 26 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 4 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.

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    1. Seif 1132 words

      Opens “שלא לקדש בביאה ואיסור ביאה על הפנויה…”

      Named: רבא.

    2. Seif 210 words

      Opens “אם הכניס אשה לחופה אינה מתקדשת בכך…”

    3. Seif 311 words

      Opens “משנתקדשה נחשבת כאשת איש לחייב הבא עליה…”

    4. Seif 470 words

      Opens “האשה מתקדשת בשלשה דרכים בכסף או בשטר…”

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    <b>שלא לקדש בביאה ואיסור ביאה על הפנויה אפי' אם יחדה. ובו ד סעיפים:</b><br>אין האשה נחשבת אשת איש אלא על ידי קדושין שנתקדשה כראוי אבל אם בא עליה דרך זנות שלא לשם קדושין אינו כלום ואפילו בא עליה לשם אישות בינו לבינה אינה נחשבת כאשתו ואפילו אם ייחדה לו אלא אדרבא כופין אותו להוציאה מביתו: הגה דבודאי בושה היא מלטבול ובא עליה בנדתה (טור) אבל אם מייחד אליו אשה וטובלת אליו י"א שמותר והוא פלגש האמורה בתורה (הראב"ד וקצת מפרשים) וי"א שאסור ולוקין על זה משום לא תהיה קדשה (הרמב"ם והרא"ש והטור) כותי שנשא כותית וכן מומר שנשא מומרת בנימוסיהן ונתגיירו אח"כ אין כאן חשש קידושין כלל ומותרת לצאת ממנו בלא גט אע"פ ששהה עמה כמה שנים אינו אלא כזנות בעלמא (ריב"ש סי' ו' ובת"ה סי' ר"ט) (וע"ל סי' קמ"ט סעיף ו'):

    A woman is not considered to be married except by way of betrothal in which the kosher betrothal was done appropriately. However, if he were to lie with her by way of harlotry, without the name of betrothal, it is nothing (towards her status as being a married woman). Even if he lies with her with the intent of marriage, mutually agreed between him and her, she is not considered as his wife and even if she dedicated herself only for him, rather the opposite is true and he must be forced (by Beis Din) to send her away from his home. Rem"a: For certainly she would be considered an embarrassment for immersion in a mikveh and he will lie with her in ritual impurity (niddah); however, if she dedicates herself exclusively for him as his wife and she immerses for him, there are those who would say that this is allowed and she would be a Pilegesh as described in the Torah and there are those who say that this is forbidden and they should both get whiplashes from the Torah as they have transgressed the precept "don't be a harlot." A Kuti who marries a Kutis and even a Mumar who marries a Mumerres in their (non-Torah) customs and they convert (or want to follow Halacha) afterwards, we are not at all concerned that they had an appropriate betrothal and he is permitted to send her out her without a Get, even though he remained together with her many years, this relationship is not considered anything but simple harlotry (Rivash 6 and Terumat HaDeshen, Part I 209), see Halachah 149:6.

    אם הכניס אשה לחופה אינה מתקדשת בכך וי"א שהוא ספק:

    If he brings a wife to the Huppah without appropriate betrothal, they are not married, but some say that they are doubtfully betrothed.

    משנתקדשה נחשבת כאשת איש לחייב הבא עליה וצריכה גט להתירה לשוק:

    A betrothed woman is considered as a man's wife in that if another lies with her, they will be guilty of adultery and she would need a divorce in order to marry another man.

    האשה מתקדשת בשלשה דרכים בכסף או בשטר או בביאה מן התורה אבל חכמים אסרו לקדש בביאה משום פריצות ואם עבר וקידש בביאה מכין אותו מכת מרדות והיא מקודשת ואפילו קדשה בכסף או בשטר אם לא שידך תחלה או שקידש בשוק מכין אותו מכת מרדות והיא מקודשת: הגה וי"א שאין מכין אם קידש בכסף או בשטר אפי' בשוק ובלא שידוכין (טור בשם הרא"ש) ולא ראיתי מימי שהכו מי שקדש בלא שדוכין:

    The woman is betrothed in 3 ways; with money, a document or with intimate relations, as learned from the Torah, but our sages prohibited betrothal by having relations because of impropriety, and if they transgressed this and he betrothed her with relations, he receives rabbinically decreed whiplashes and she is still betrothed. Even if he betrothed her with money or with a document and they did not arrange the marriage agreement beforehand or he betrothed her in the market place, he receives rabbinically decreed whiplashes and she is still betrothed. Rem"a: There are those who say that we don't give whiplashes if he betrothed her with money or a document, even in the market and without any arrangement and in my life, I never saw someone given whiplashes for becoming betrothed without arrangement.

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