Bava Batra 140B

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What is the halakha with regard to sustenance the deceased pledged to give the daughter of his wife from a previous marriage? Does it reduce the value of the estate? What is the halakha with regard to the sustenance to which his widow is entitled? Does it reduce the value of the estate? Furthermore

R' Abbahu said to R' Yirmeya: Go now and come back tomorrow. When he came back, R' Abbahu said to him: Resolve at least one of your questions, as R' Abba says that R' Asi says: The rabbis established the status of the widow in relation to the daughter as equivalent to the status of the daughter in

§ The Mishnah teaches: Admon says, rhetorically: I lost out just because I am male? Rather, he holds that the sons also receive sustenance. The Talmud asks: What is he saying? Abaye said that this is what he is saying: Because I am male, and I am fit to engage in the study of the Torah, I lost out

Mishnah: With regard to one who left behind sons and daughters and a tumtum, whose halakhic status as male or female is indeterminate, the halakha is as follows: When the estate is large the males direct the tumtum to the females and exclude him from the inheritance, claiming that perhaps the tumt

With regard to one who says: If my wife gives birth to a male the offspring shall receive a gift of 100 dinars, if she in fact gave birth to a male, the offspring receives 100 dinars. If he says: If my wife gives birth to a female the offspring shall receive a gift of 200 dinars, if she in fact g