Domestic Responsibilities, and Maaseh yadeha מעשה ידיה - A married woman's earnings
In this document, "Cheresh" refers to a person who is deaf and mute. Please note that many of the laws relating to a "Cheresh" do not necessarily apply to all people who are deaf and mute; it depends on mental ability, as well.
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Domestic Responsibilities
As a general principle, a married woman's financial circumstances should be either according to her family or according to his, whichever is greater: Ketuvot 48a [2x], 61a, 64b
An expectation that a wife will prepare food, do laundry, nurse children, manage the bedroom and work with wool: Ketuvot 59b
Which tasks are not required if a wife brings household help into the marriage: Ketuvot 59b, 61a, 61b
Which tasks are not required if a wife brings in a large dowry which could be used to hire help, or if she stints on other expenditures to be able to afford help: Ketuvot 61a
Not expecting a wife to engage in difficult physical labour, like grinding grain or working with flax: Ketuvot 59b, 61b
Not expecting a wife to serve the husband's father or son: Ketuvot 61b
Not expecting a wife to feed one's male animals: Ketuvot 61b [see Rashi בהמתו]
Rabbi Chiyya's views on how much a wife should work: Ketuvot 59b
Forcing a man to divorce if he vows that his wife may not work: Ketuvot 59b
Encouraging a situation in which a wife, rather than hired help, performs household tasks that build intimacy with her husband: Ketuvot 61a
Reduction of a woman's ketubah over time for refusal to engage in housework: Ketuvot 63a-b
A woman's duty to nurse her children
On nursing, in general
One who is hired to nurse a baby
If a husband and wife disagree on whether to hire a nursemaid or whether the mother should nurse, who wins: Ketuvot 61a
What happens if a woman vows not to nurse her child: Ketuvot 59b
How long a woman is expected to nurse her child: Ketuvot 59b-60b
How long a woman must wait to re-marry, if she gives birth and then her husband dies during the two years of the child's life: Ketuvot 60a-b
Allowing a woman to re-marry if she arranges for someone else to nurse her child - or worrying that the new nursemaid may back out: Ketuvot 60b
Allowing a woman to re-marry if she weans her nursing child - or worrying that the new nursemaid may back out: Ketuvot 60b
Allowing a woman to re-marry if her nursing child dies: Ketuvot 60b
One who has been hired to nurse a baby may not then nurse another child, including her own: Ketuvot 60b
Rabbi Chanina permitted Mar Ukva to marry a woman who had been nursing a baby for only fifteen months [despite potential concern for a new pregnancy which could curtail her milk]: Ketuvot 60b
Rav Nachman permitted a woman from the Exilarch's household to re-marry after her husband died even though she had a child who needed nursing, because she arranged for a nursemaid and Rav Nachman knew that no one would back out on the Exilarch. He didn't permit it for others: Ketuvot 60b
Decreasing a woman's expected work production when she is nursing: Ketuvot 64b
A husband's rights to his wife's earnings
A husband's right to his wife's work product: Ketuvot 65b
A husband's right to that which his wife finds: Ketuvot 65b, 65b-66a
Trade-off: The Husband provides food, while he gets control of her work's production. [This is within the view that food is a Rabbinic requirement, and not biblical law.]: Ketuvot 47b, 58b; Bava Kama 8b
Alternative version of the trade-off: The husband provides an extra ma'ah of silver per week, in exchange for receiving her work product: Ketuvot 58b-59a, 64b
May a husband compel his wife to work?: Pesachim 50b; Ketuvot 58b
The point of the support-work exchange is to prevent strife between them: Ketuvot 58b; Kiddushin 47a; Bava Metzia 12b
A wife's ability to refuse the support-work exchange: Ketuvot 58b, 70a-b; Bava Kama 8b
A husband's [lack of] power to refuse the support-work exchange: Ketuvot 70a-b; Gittin 11b, 12a-13a
Is a husband able to consecrate his wife's work product?: Ketuvot 58b-59a
The validity of an oath a woman swears, prohibiting her husband from benefit from her work product: Ketuvot 59a, 65b-66a, 70a-b
Considering the husband like a purchaser of the work product, such that if his wife then consecrates it, it still belongs to the husband during the marriage: Ketuvot 59a-b
A husband's limited rights regarding property his wife inherits during the marriage: Ketuvot 65b
A husband's limited rights to fines paid to his wife for shame or harm: Ketuvot 65b
The expected level of work production
A certain amount of weaving, by weight: Ketuvot 59a, 64b
Decreasing a woman's expected work production when she is nursing: Ketuvot 64b
A husband's rights to his wife's work product, beyond the expected level of work
Trade-off: The husband provides an extra ma'ah of silver per week, in exchange for receiving her work product beyond the expected level: Ketuvot 58b-59a
Alternative version of the trade-off: The Husband provides food, while he gets control of her work's production, beyond the expected level. [This is within the view that food is a Rabbinic requirement, and not biblical law.]: Ketuvot 58b-59a
Is a husband able to consecrate his wife's work product, beyond the expected level of work?: Ketuvot 58b-59a
The validity of an oath a woman swears, prohibiting her husband from benefit from her extra work product: Ketuvot 59a, 66a
Distinguishing between general exceeding of expectations, and excess which comes about through great strain: Ketuvot 66a