[Avodah] Vayeitze "Watch Whom You Marry"

[T613K at aol.com]

>>Who says there was a written kesuba?  The Avos kept  all the mitzvos,
including d'rabbanans like Eruv Tavshilin, so presumably  there was a
kesuba, but Chazal seem to speak of written kesubos as a custom  local 
to some places and not to others.  And if there was a written  kesuba,
who says it had to have the wife's name?  After all, the wife  has the
document, and if ch"v she has to collect on it she can just produce  it 
and everyone knows who she is and who her husband  was.<<
[--RZS]  
 


>> The idea of  an ORAL kesubah is possible of course because after all the 
Mishna itself  discusses it<< [--RRW]





>>>>>
If the Mishna discusses it I guess such a thing  is possible but to me it 
sounds like an impossibility by definition.   Doesn't the very word "kesuba" 
/mean/ "something written"?  It's like  talking about "an oral manuscript" or "an 
unwritten  document."
 
And how could the wife keep an oral kesuba in a  safe hiding place, to be 
produced when needed?



--Toby  Katz
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