כתובות ו׳Ketubot 6

Mishnah 3ג׳

פָּסְקָה לְהַכְנִיס לוֹ אֶלֶף דִּינָר, הוּא פוֹסֵק כְּנֶגְדָּן חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר מָנֶה. וּכְנֶגֶד הַשּׁוּם, הוּא פוֹסֵק פָּחוֹת חֹמֶשׁ. שׁוּם בְּמָנֶה וְשָׁוֶה מָנֶה, אֵין לוֹ אֶלָּא מָנֶה. שׁוּם בְּמָנֶה, הִיא נוֹתֶנֶת שְׁלֹשִׁים וְאֶחָד סֶלַע וְדִינָר. וּבְאַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת, הִיא נוֹתֶנֶת חֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֹת. מַה שֶּׁחָתָן פּוֹסֵק, הוּא פוֹסֵק פָּחוֹת חֹמֶשׁ:

If she committed herself to bring in to him (as dowry) one thousand dinars, he designates them as fifteen manah. [One thousand dinars are ten manah; and when the groom comes to accept it and to write it in the kethubah, he writes one-third more, which is fifteen manah (If the bride brought in to him actual dinars; for he earns through them.)] And relative to assessment, he designates a fifth less. [If she brought in to him clothing and jewelry which need to be assessed, he writes (in the kethubah) a fifth less (than the assessment). For example, if she brought in an assessment of one thousand zuz, he acknowledges only eight hundred. For it is the practice of the assessors of the bride's property to assess it at more than its worth to lend distinction to the bride and to endear her to her husband.] If the assessment were a manah and the worth a manah, [that is, if they assessed the bride's property at its actual worth in the marketplace], he has only one manah. [They write in the kethubah only a manah, as they assessed it.] (For) an assessment of a manah, she gives thirty-one sela and a dinar. [For an assessment that he accepts as a manah, i.e., where they told him: Write a manah in the kethubah, and she will bring in to you the worth of a manah, it must be assessed in the bridal chamber as thirty-one sela and a dinar, which is a manah and a fifth.] And for four manah, she gives five manah. [When the groom took upon himself to write four manah, she gives five manah according to the estimate of the assessors.] Whatever the groom writes, he writes a fifth less. [If they assessed it first, and she brought it in to him, whether a small assessment or a large one, he writes a fifth less.]

Mishnah 4ד׳

פָּסְקָה לְהַכְנִיס לוֹ כְסָפִים, סֶלַע כֶּסֶף נַעֲשֶׂה שִׁשָּׁה דִינָרִים. הֶחָתָן מְקַבֵּל עָלָיו עֲשָׂרָה דִינָרִין לַקֻּפָּה, לְכָל מָנֶה וּמָנֶה. רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר, הַכֹּל כְּמִנְהַג הַמְּדִינָה:

If she committed herself to bring in silver to him, [actual dinars with which he can trade immediately], a sela of silver [which is four dinars] becomes six dinars. [It is written into the kethubah as six dinars, an addition of a third. The tanna hereby apprises us that with actual dinars, whether they be many (such as the "thousand dinars" [6:2] or few (such as the "sela" here), they are always written into the kethubah at a third more, for they are immediately negotiable. And with things that require assessment, such as clothing and jewelry, whether they be many (as in "and relative to the assessment" [6:2], which refers to the thousand zuz mentioned above) or few (as in "for an assessment of a manah" [6:3]), she gives thirty-one sela and a dinar. In the kethubah, we always write a fifth less than the assessment of the bridal chamber. In this connection, it makes no difference whether it was assessed first and then came to be written into the kethubah, in which instance we must deduct in the kethubah a fifth of the assessment of the bridal chamber (as we learned [6:3]: "Whatever the groom writes, etc.,") or whether he writes the kethubah first, in which instance the assessment must be a fifth more than what is written in the kethubah (as we learned [Ibid.]: "And for a four manah assessment, she gives five manah.")] The groom takes it upon himself to give to the "fund" twenty dinars for every manah [i.e., to give her ten zuz for every manah that she brings him, with which to buy spices and perfumes. Our Mishnah does not specify whether every week, every month, or every year.] R. Shimon b. Gamliel said: "All is in accordance with the custom of the land.