daf bit: Ketuvot 61

[cellio]

A mishna teaches: if a married man makes a vow of celibacy, Beit Shammai says his wife must tolerate it for two weeks. Beit Hillel says one week. Rav says that this is only so when the man specifies a duration for the vow; if he does not, Rav says that both Shammai and Hillel require him to immediately divorce his wife and pay her ketubah. Samuel permits him to delay the divorce while looking for a way to be excused from the vow. (61b)

(There is no discussion here of limits on the duration, but I'll bet there is later in the gemara. Oh, and I don't know who Samuel is.)

This same mishna also gives the requirements for how often a man owes his wife intercourse (if she wants it), by the way. It varies by occupation, ranging from daily for men who don't work at all to every six months for sailors. I don't see scholars on the list. :-)

Comments

[zevabe.livejournal.com]

If she refuses (there is a dispute if this is sex or work), she loses 1 dinar per day(same as a zuz, except we rarely if ever talk aout 1 zuz). So assuming a normal virgin ketuba with no addition, she can refuse for 200 days before becoming ketuba-less, which just means divorcing her is free. She still needs a get. Note, if the man refuses, the woman's ketuba increases by 3 dinar per week, which is 1/2 per day, but her ketuba can't go up on Shabbat. Why it can go down on Shabbat, I am unsure.