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Our daf ends as we begin Perek IV with a new Mishna. It teaches that if a young woman was seduced, she is entitled to the fine for seduction and to the additional compensation for degradation, humiliation (and pain, if she was raped).
If she goes to court to sue the offender for this crime and she is a minor or still under her father's authority, the money goes to her father. If her father has died, the money goes to her brothers, her father's heirs.
We examine the concept of chazi nezek whereby a person’s property causes damage, obviously there is a need to pay restitution. Nevertheless, the Torah teaches that we distinguish between a shor mu’ad – an ox that has gored in the past – for which one pays full damages (nezek shalem), and a shor tam – an ox with no violent history – for which one pays for only half of the damage (hatzi nezek) that he caused.
We explore Deborah Greniman’s essay on The Origins of the Ketubah: Deferred Payment or Cash up Front? as well as Michael Satlow’s distinction between the biblical “mohar” bride price vs the talmudic ketubah or nedunia.