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Our daf focuses more deeply on the details of land brought into the marriage by the kalah. While the chatan is permitted to use the produce of her land, there are limitations on what he can do. The rabbis are concerned, for example, that a man might take care of the land carelessly because he assumes that he will be divorced.
When working with nikhsei melug – which remain the property of the wife even as her husband derives benefit from it – there is a need to protect the interests of the wife in making sure that the property will not be destroyed, as well as the interests of the husband so that he will take care of the property, even though it does not belong to him.
Our daf ends with a new Mishna that discusses how a woman's property might be inherited if that property belongs to a yevama who dies while waiting for her yavam. Does his family inherit the property? Do her heirs, i.e.. her father and his heirs inherit the property? Should it be split? The rabbis are clearly protective of a woman's property to some degree according to today's debate.
We explore the history of NAZI looted art and how cases brought by children of those murdered owners came to light and were litigated decades later.