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Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 79
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Even HaEzer Siman 79 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 3 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.
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<b>חיוב רפואתה. ובו ג סעיפים:</b><br>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:
How 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].
רצו היורשין לקצוב עם הרופא כדי שיהיה לה קצבה ויפטרו ממנה הרשות בידם:
If 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.
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:
If 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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