[Avodah] kesuvah

[Arie Folger]

> R"n Menucha wrote:
> > Rav Mordechai Eliyahu SHLT"A, in a psak din (found in PDR 11)
> > writes that today "haminhag pashut"  that before the giving of
> > the get the woman is mochel her ketuba in front of witnesses.

RAM:
> Then why do they bother writing a ketuba to begin with?

RMB:
> ... and why doesn't this reduce it to an aspachta [asmachta --AF]?

Because the ketubah isn't only about what the wife will get when she gets a 
get (puns intended), but both the support owed while married and the 
maintenance owed after her husband dies.
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