Takkanah - Ordinances of The Last Tannaim

Ordinances of The Last Tannaim

The following ordinances are ascribed to the last generation of tannaim (end of the second and beginning of the 3rd century):

To R. Judah I., ha-Nasi: (1) messengers must be sent every month to announce the new moon to the Diaspora (R. H. 22b); (2) concerning the purchase of fields among the Sicarii (Giṭ. 55b); (3) on menstruation (Niddah 66a).

Ordinances from the period of the Mishnah and relating to women are as follows:

  1. an orphan girl married during her minority may leave her husband without a bill of divorce on attaining her majority (Ket. 46b)
  2. the permission to marry a feebleminded girl (Yeb. 112b)
  3. a virgin should be married on a Wednesday (Ket. 1a)
  4. various laws of purification (Niddah 11a)
  5. the earnings of the wife belong to her husband (Ket. 46a)
  6. the husband must pay all bills for his wife's illness (Ket. 51a)
  7. a husband must ransom his wife from captivity (ib. 76b)
  8. a husband must defray the expenses of his wife's burial (ib. 76a)
  9. whatever is found by the wife belongs to her husband (B. M. 12a)
  10. a widow is entitled to remain in the house of her deceased husband and to share in the income (ib. 52b)
  11. orphan girls share the income from their father's estate until they reach their majority (ib. 52b); (12) male heirs succeed to the property of the mother, even after their father's death (ib. 52b);
  12. the daughter is entitled to a certain portion of her father's estate as her dowry (ib. 67a); (14) a bill of divorce must be written and signed in the presence of the messenger who is to deliver it (Giṭ. i. 1); (15) the date must be given in all legal documents (ib. 17a); (16) in a bill of divorce the date must be given according to the state calendar (Giṭ. 79b; later it was also dated according to the era of Creation)
  13. witnesses must sign a bill of divorce in the presence of each other (ib. 10a)
  14. introduction of the "geṭ mekushshar" to make divorce more difficult (B. B. 160a)
  15. a woman becomes free even though only a single witness testifies to her husband's death (Yeb. 87b).

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