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Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 97
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Even HaEzer Siman 97 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 2 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>(אם) הבעל יכול להשביע אשתו בטענת ספק. ובו ד סעיפים:</b><br>המושיב אשתו חנונית או שמינה אפוטרופוס משביעה אפי' בטענת שמא של שתי כסף אבל אם אינה נושאת ונותנת אלא שמתעסקת בצרכי הבית בפלכה ובעיסתה כדרך כל הנשים אינו יכול להשביעה בטענת שמא:
If a man appoints his wife a shopkeeper or a guardian, he may make her swear even in a claim which is unsupported about two silvers. But if she does not do business and only is busy with housekeeping and working with dough, like all women, he is unable to make her swear in an unsupported claim.
המושיב אשתו חנונית או שמינה אפוטרופא אינו יכול להשביעה עד שתתבע כתובתה וי"א שמשביע' כל זמן שירצה (ייחד לה קרקע בכתובתה אע"פ שבאתה לגבות כתובתה לא מקרי תובעת כתובה וא"י להשביעה (מרדכי פ' הכותב) לפי סברא הראשונה):
A man who appoints his wife as a shopkeeper or a gaurdian, cannot make her swear until she claims her ketubah . And some say that he can make her swear any time he wants. If he designated land for her in the ketubah , even if she came to collect her ketubah , it is not called claiming her ketubah and he cannot make her swear (Mordechai Ch. Hakotev) because of the first reason.
English translation: Sefaria Community Translation · CC0