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A new Mishna teaches that the sale of property by a widow is considered void if that sale is founded on an inaccurate assessment. Even one dinar difference is is too much of a difference to allow the sale to be considered valid. If a woman sells the property in pieces, those sales can hold as long as she does not err in assessment of property value. If one of those transactions is off, only that particular sale is voided.
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