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A new Mishna teaches us a number of things about the ketubah. Usually, the ketubah mentioned a number of stipulations. They were assumed to be in effect even if the actual clauses were omitted from the ketubah:
· Males from the marriage inherit the ketubah
· In Judea males from the marriage are entitled to give the ketubah amount to their mother and to leave her to find her own care and lodging
· Females from the marriage were to be sustained by the father's movable property until they were married
The Gemara suggests that this was stated to encourage fathers to leave as much to their daughters as to their sons.
We explore Aryeh Cohen’s thesis regarding Rashi’s (as opposed to the later Tosafists) concept of marriage and the incentive built in to the ketubah.
This leads us to the Lieberman Clause that reflected more political (US) denominational biases rather than purely halachic differences.