[Avodah] Rav Shimon Schwab on how Jewish women should dress

[Zev Sero]

Chana Luntz wrote:

> And further, it would seem from Kesuvos 48a that the Beis Din is
> empowered, in the absence of a husband, to go down onto his property in
> order to provide sustenance for his wife, such sustenance to include a
> required provision for adornments 

Actually this is incorrect.  "A woman whose husband is gone, and the
BD appropriates for her food and clothing and furniture and rent, they
do not appropriate adornments for her, for she has no husband for whom
to adorn herself."   http://mechon-mamre.org/i/4113.htm#8

The same psak is in Shulchan Aruch EH 70:5: "But they don't give her
the means to adorn herself".   Evidently either we pasken like R Chisda
rather than R Yosef, or else we accept Rashi's reading which reverses
the "kol sheken".


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