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One day a Muslim official in Baghdad would state he never saw a Jewish ketubbah (kt[? Satlow argues that the rabbis instituted the ketubbah to "compensate" women for the introduction of the husband's unilateral right to divorce, another rabbinic innovation. Eventually, this would become the modern custom of consecutively performed betrothal, reading of the ketubbah (signed minutes before the betrothal), and, finally, the marriage, with all three ceremonies taking place under the huppah. |
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