Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Even ha-Ezer

by Rabbi Yosef Karo

Laws of "Be Fruitful and Multiply" - Laws of Procreation

• 1: The laws of "be fruitful and multiply" and that one should not be without a woman
• 2: A man should make an effort to marry a respectable wife
• 3: Laws of a son, when it is doubtful that he is a Cohen
• 4: Who is forbidden to mix with the community and who is considered a Mamzer
• 5: Laws of one with crushed testicles or whose member is cut off and the prohibition against castrating a person, beast, or bird
• 6: Women who are forbidden to Marry a Cohen (Priestly Class) and laws of a Cohen's wife

Laws of Matrimony

• 7: Laws pertaining to a women who is captured and who called a chalalah (not permitted to a Cohen)
• 8: Any doubts about births follow the status of the male
• 9: Which women is called a husband killer (Katalnit)
• 10: Which divorcee is allowed to return to her husband
• 11: (Laws if) a women is suspected by her husband
• 12: Witnesses for a get and likewise if witnesses that testify to the death a women's husband are permitted to marry that women
• 13: A divorcee or widow must wait 90 days before she remarries so that she makes sure she is not pregnant or nursing
• 14: That one should not marry a women during the days of mourning
• 15: Biblical and rabbinic prohibitions against sexual iniquity (ervah)
• 16: Prohibitions about Cuthites and female slaves
• 17: When a women is permitted to marry after the death of her husband and she said "you divorced me" and the laws of witnesses and the laws of forbidden and mistaken marriages
• 18: To who betrothal takes effect
• 19: When one may stone on a presumption that a women is engaged in sexual transgressions (ervah)
• 20: Which sexual acts are considered sexual iniquities (ervah)
• 21: One must distance oneself from nakedness / sexual iniquities
• 22: Prohibitions against being alone and with whom is one forbidden to be alone
• 23: Prohibitions against spilling one's seed needlessly and things that cause this to happen
• 24: Jewish (men) are not suspected of bestiality and gay sex
• 25: To make a fence, and not to engage in excessive marital relations, and how to act during marital relations

Laws of Betrothal (Kiddushin)

• 26: That one should not betroth another through sex and the prohibitions of sex with an unmarried woman even if he is alone with her
• 27: The language of Kiddushin: what he says and what he gives her
• 28: Betrothal with stolen property, entrusted property, loans, or items forbidden either biblically or rabbinically to benefit from
• 29: That he needs to give money in a complete gift and the laws of betrothal with a security or a coin that is found to be lacking or bad
• 30: To which place one needs to give money (for betrothal) and the laws if one is betrothing in a plaza
• 31: That one should not betroth a women with less than a perutah (of money) and if he needs to assess (the value)
• 32: How a women is betrothed through a marriage document
• 33: How a women is betrothed through sexual relations
• 34: Blessing over betrothal and if one needs 10 people (to bless)
• 35: Law pertaining to using an emissary to perform betrothal
• 36: All the laws pertaining to the emissary for a women
• 37: All the laws pertaining to the betrothal of minors
• 38: Conditional betrothals and all laws of conditional statements
• 39: If one betroths on of five women and they all say "he betrothed me!"
• 40: The laws of one who seeks to betroth a women after a certain period of time for example after she has given birth and other similar cases
• 41: The laws of betrothing two sisters or many women (at once), and what is the law if they are non-Jews
• 42: One may only become betrothed with the permission of a women and in front of two witnesses
• 43 The betrothal of a male minor is invalid and laws pertaining to a minor who becomes of age
• 44: The betrothal of a deaf-mute, idiot, and minor is a transgression and the liability of transgressing negative commandments
• 45: We worry about gifts and the Ketubah
• 46 Laws pertaining to a rumor of betrothal and if the rumor can be invalidated
• 47: Witnesses that contradict each other in relation to betrothal or if she says "I became betrothed" and then took it back
• 48: If he says to her "become betrothed to me" and she said no or the opposite
• 49 A man who married 1 of 5 women (and he does not know which one) and each woman claims to have married him
• 50: When one returns betrothal and post betrothal gifts (sivlonon) and the laws of financial penalties
• 51 Things acquired with spoken words [when coming to terms of a marriage] that do not need to be written down
• 52 One who stipulated a dowry for his son-in-law and does not want to give it to him
• 53 One who stipulated a gift for his son or daughter if they get married; If she fell to yibum; If the daughter died
• 54 When a parent dies after stipulating a gift for a son or daughter
• 55 The law of a betrothed woman regarding her sustenance, burial, inheritance and ketubah
• 56: How much time is permitted for betrothal
• 57 If there was a courtyard along the way and the bride entered [secluded] with the bridegroom
• 58: How much property he will give to his daughter
• 59: If one marries off his son in a wedding house, his son acquires it
• 60: The laws of the ushers and bridesmaids (shushvinut)
• 61 In what way does the bridegroom acquire his bride with the chupah ceremony
• 62 When do we recite the blessings of the bridegroom and when there is celebratory feasting in multiple homes
• 63 Relations with a virgin wife and its associated [verbally recited] blessing
• 64 The blessings and length of celebration [days] of a virgin or a widow; When the groom does not want to make a celebration feast but the bride does wants one
• 65 To make the bride and groom happy; The laws of a funeral procession and a bridal procession

Laws of Marriage Documents (Ketubot)

• 66: A number of laws about the Ketubah
• 67: The Ketubah of a widow, deaf-mute, idiot, and minor (whether he or she is) and a convert
• 68: How to lodge a complain against a women's virginity and when she is forbidden (to her husband) and her Ketubah is invalid
• 69: A person's obligation to his wife and children
• 70 A man's obligation to provide food for his wife and if he is obligated to hire himself out (in order to feed her)
• 71: A person's obligation to support his sons and daughters when they are minors
• 72 One who vows against his wife from getting benefit from him
• 73 A husband is responsible to provide his wife with clothing, a residence for dwelling, and household vessels
• 74 A wife who vows against herself several different things
• 75 Division of the land for the purpose of marriage and the laws of the land of Israel
• 76 The conjugal obligation a husband towards his wife
• 77 Laws of rebellious spouse or she says, "There is hatred upon me"
• 78 The responsibility of a husband to redeem his wife
• 79 The responsibility of a husband to provide medical care for his wife
• 80: The deeds that a women is obligated toward her husband, the laws of breastfeeding, and what happens if she doesn't want to do work
• 81 One who sanctifies the product of his wife's hands
• 82 A woman who vow not to nurse (her child) and the law nursing woman who becomes divorced
• 83 One who damages a married woman, who receives payment
• 84 That which a woman finds
• 85: Laws of Melog and Tzoan Barzel property (property that a women brings into a marriage)
• 86 Not to accept an object to be guarded from women, slaves or children
• 87 There is no presumed ownership with the possessions of a man's wife
• 88 A wife no longer under the authority of her husband, either because of death, divorce or refusal, takes possessions
• 89 A husband is responsible to bury his wife
• 90 The law of a husband inheriting his wife and what he does not inherent
• 91 A wife who loaned out assets from her husband to another and then cancelled the obligation of the other to pay it back
• 92 A man who removed himself from the profits of his wife's property and her inheritance
• 93: Law of supporting the widow
• 94 The obligation to provide a widow with a place to live and clothing
• 95
• 96 The oath of a widow and divorced wife regarding her Ketubah
• 97
• 98 When a husband exempted her from an oath and or designated movable property for her, she collects it without an oath
• 99
• 100 What is used to pay the Ketubot and the remaining laws of Ketubot
• 101
• 102 The law of a widow's Ketubah when there is a creditor with a claim against her deceased husband
• 103
• 104 When the court or an appointed agent sold property (to pay the Ketubah) and made a mistake
• 105
• 106 The one who writes that all his possessions should be given to his children and wrote that his wife should be given land of any size
• 107
• 108: Law of a critically ill person (shechiv merah) that says "give my wife the same portion of inheritance as my sons"
• 109
• 110 Writing a receipt for a wife even though her husband is no longer with her
• 111 The law of the Ketubah in regards to the children of a wife who passed away
• 112 Sustenance of the daughters, what and how much is provided to them
• 113 From where do we collect the tithe from of his property
• 114 The law of a man who married with the stipulation that he would provide for his wife's daughter or for someone else
• 115 When a divorced wife should not receive a Ketubah and when a divorced wife forfeits her right to a Ketubah
• 116 The laws of the Ketubah and its conditions; The law of one who married a spouse prohibited by a negative commandment
• 117 The law of the Ketubah regarding a woman who does not experience a period or has another kind of physical defect; The law of a woman who has been widowed more than once
• 118 The ordinance of marriage of Toledo (Spain); The laws of dowry

Laws of Divorce (Gittin)

• 119 For what reasons can a man divorce his wife
• 120: One should not write a Get without the divorcee's knowledge
• 121 The husband must be of sound mind from the time of the writing of the Get until it is given
• 122: If one commissions a Get and there is a mistake or it is lost
• 123: Laws about what is written in the Get (Divorce document)
• 124: About what is written in a Get
• 125 Who is authorized to write a Get; The writing of a Get; Giving a Get on the Sabbath
• 126: Customary language of the Get and the need to be exact with spelling
• 127: One must mention the date on a Get and the law pertaining to postdating and predating
• 128: That one must mention in the Get the place of dwelling for the husband, wife, and witnesses
• 129 Signing a get; An apostate that divorces
• 130: Laws of the witnesses of the Get and their signatures and if they don't know how to read and write
• 131 The Get must be written and signed (by witnesses) for the purpose of divorce between a specific man and his specific wife
• 132 It is required to mention the names of the husband and wife (in the Get)
• 133 A Get must be handed over in the presence of two kosher witnesses
• 134 The husband is required to cancel all protests
• 135 The requirement to read the Get before and after it is delivered
• 136 The words required to be spoken when a Get is given and when a divorce occurs on Shabbos
• 137 The requirement for the divorcing husband to totally permit her (to marry any man)
• 138 A Get is given from the hand of the husband
• 139 Accepting a Get directly from the hand of the husband; When he throws the Get too her or into her courtyard
• 140 Appointing an agent to deliver or to receive or to retrieve a Get
• 141 Appointing agents; retracting agents
• 142 One who brings a Get from outside the land of Israel
• 143 One who divorces on a condition
• 144 The conditions of a Get and if there are conditions involving forced relations in a Get
• 145 The law of a deathly ill husband, if he recovers and died because of an unfortunate occurrence
• 146 One who divorced after a fixed time and woman divorced on a condition
• 147 Not to write the conditions of a Get in the Get; What is the law if the conditions were written
• 148 Divorcing with an old Get or a conditional Get and that the husband should not be alone with her
• 149 A man who divorced his wife and later had relations with her or was alone with her
• 150 A Get containing flaws that was given
• 151 When a scribe made a mistake in the Get or in the receipt (for the divorce)
• 152 When two witnesses claim that a woman is divorced; When a woman claims that she was married and divorced
• 153 If one found a Get in the marketplace, whom do we return it too
• 154 Who do we force a man or a woman to get divorced; The order of the written Get and how it is given
• 155: Until what age can a youth refuse marriage (miyun) and more laws on miyun

Laws of Levirate Marriage (Yibum)

• 156: Who is called a legitimate offspring (zera kayama) in order to exempt one from Levirate Marriage
• 157: Laws of converts and mamzerim and who is called a "brother" in reference to levirate marriage
• 158: In what way is a women believed to have to engaged in levirate marriage and that she is believed if there is only one witness
• 159 Does the yevamah who betrothed an outsider become forbidden to perform yibum or chalitza with her yavam
• 160: Obligation to support the Yibumah and her relatives and the laws of her property and inheritances
• 161 When one of many brothers married many wives and he then died, his wives fall to Yibum to them
• 162 Laws of the co-wife of a Yevamah and her close relatives
• 163 The Yavam merits the property of his dead brother and the claims of the Yavam's children
• 164 Chalitzah and yibum are not performed within the first three months; The law if she married within the first three months and we find her to be pregnant
• 165 Which act takes precedence: Chalitzah or Yibum
• 166 The yevamah travels to the court of the yavam; When he acquires her through marriage or through relations
• 167: Laws of a minor Yibum and his chalitah and likewise a Yibumah
• 168 That a yavam and his yevamah are considered married if they had relations and who is responsible for her ketubah

Laws of Release from Levirate Marriage (Chalitzah)

• 169 Laws of Chalitzah in Detail
• 170 A get given after another get and a [Rabbinical marriage via] speech that occurred after another [Rabbinical marriage via] speech
• 171 Law of two yevamot who are deaf or who are minors
• 172: Law if the yivum is a saris (sexually impotent or castrated male), deaf-mute, idiot, minor, tumtum (sexually ambiguous), and likewise for a yibumah
• 173 A yevamah forbidden to her yavam via spiritual excision and her co-wife; A suspected adulteress and her co-wife; A minor yevamah who refuses the marriage
• 174 A yevamah forbidden to her yavam via a positive or negative commandment (that does not involved spiritual excision)
• 175 When the conditions initially forbidding a yavamah to her yavam no longer exist
• 176: Laws of a Yevumah that was forbidden or permitted
• 177: Laws of a rapist and seducer
• 178: Laws of a suspected adulteress (Sotah)