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Our Mishna discusses the case of someone who leaves his wife and appoints someone to make
sure that she has all of her needs as delineated by the ketuba.
The Mishna lists the basic
requirements that must be supplied in such a case: food, furnishings, clothing and so on.
The conclusion of both our Gemara and the Yerushalmi appears to be that wealthy women were given an allotment of wine for both drinking and cooking, if that was their common practice.
We explore the history of entrepreneur Jewish women from antiquity to the present, including how Jewish widows controlled their assets, how they negotiated both their contractual relationship to their husbands as well as the outside prejudicial men’s world of commerce.