(Mishnah): A widow is fed from the property of the orphans. They receive her earnings. They are not obligated to bury her. Her heirs who inherit her Kesuvah must bury her.

(Gemara - Rav Yehudah citing Shmuel, and R. Avahu citing R. Yochanan): [A widow's] Metzi'ah (Hefker item that she found) is hers;

If there was food left over (from what she is fed from the estate) - a wife's Metzi'ah is his (her husband's), her excess food is his. A widow's Metzi'ah is hers, her excess food is hers

If [a widow's] Bala'os (remnants of clothing that the orphans gave to her) were left over, they are hers. A wife's excess food is his, but her Bala'os are hers. A widow's excess food is hers, all the more so her excess Bala'os are hers!

Question: There (a wife) needs [separate clothing] for when she is Nidah! (If she wears the same clothing when she is Tehorah as when she is Nidah, her husband will despise her. - RASHI 65b)

Answer: Also here, [a widow] needs [separate clothing] for when she is Nidah [so her neighbors will know that she may not touch Taharos - PF. According to this, perhaps the law is different nowadays that there are no Taharos even in Eretz Yisrael!]

(R. Imi citing R. Yosi ben Chaninah): Even [though a widow works for the orphans, she] does not do [for the heirs] private matters.

Question: What are private matters?

Answer: It is anointing their bodies, washing their faces, and mixing their cup. (Presumably, it is permitted if she is their mother, unless we decree lest she do so even for her step-children. - PF)

We add to her food [if she is nursing]. A wife does not receive wine; a widow receives wine.

If a wife said 'let my earnings go for my food' (I will keep my earnings and feed myself), we do not heed her. If a widow said 'let my earnings go for my food', we heed her.

(Rav): If a Mes said (amidst a Matanos Shechiv Mera) 'do not bury me [from my property]', he is buried from Tzedakah. (If the recipient seized, we do not take from him for burial.)

Question (R. Imi): Does it cross your mind that others (his heirs) are financed from his property, and he is buried from Tzedakah?!

Question (against Rav - Mishnah): Her heirs who inherit her Kesuvah must bury her. (Also they receive right after death, like the recipient of Matanos Shechiv Mera!)

Answer: That is when they inherited land. (Seizing does not apply to it. Rav discusses a gift of Metaltelim.)

Question (Beraisa): If one left over male and female slaves, documents and Metaltelim [and he owed a creditor and a Kesuvah], whoever seized first acquired, and he is buried from Tzedakah.

Inference: It is because they seized first, but if they did not seize first, we take [from the property to bury him]!

Answer: The case is, he said 'bury me [from my property].'

Question: R. Yosi said in the name of Rabanan, if the Mes was buried and he had said 'bury me [from my property]', even if others came first and seized, we take from them.

Answer: That is when they seized land, but if they seized Metaltelim we do not take from them.

Limitation: You say that when they seized land, we take from them - this refers to a loan through witnesses, but a loan with a document, whether they seized land or seized Metaltelim, we do not take from them (for Torah Shibud supports them. We explained this like MEICHAL HA'MAYIM.)

(R. Aba bar Rav Huna): [The reason why we heed one who said 'do not bury me' is because] they made a Shechiv Mera (a Choleh who verbally gives away his property amidst fear that he die) like a healthy person who wrote [a gift document] and gave [it]. This is if he died from that illness (PNEI MOSHE);

Inference: A healthy person, no.

Limitation: [A Shechiv Mera's gift is valid] if he specifies and says 'give field Ploni to Ploni.'

Question: If he said 'give half of it [to Ploni]', is it as if he specified? Or is it only if he says 'the half in the north' or 'the half in the south'? (PNEI MOSHE)

Question (R. Yudan): If he said 'burn me, or do work with me (my body - a Mes is Asur b'Hana'ah) and give half of field Ploni to Ploni' - if they do not burn, do they not give?

Question (R. Chagai): If a Shechiv Mera said 'my daughters should be fed' [what is the law]?

Question: Without [saying so], are his daughters not fed?! (This is a Tenai Kesuvah!)

Answer: [It is a Tenai Kesuvah that they are fed from Bnei Chorin land. He asks] are they fed from Meshubadim [due to his command]? Are they fed from Metaltelim?

R. Yudan fled to Noy. A case came in front of R. Yosi - if a Shechiv Mera said to give his documents to Ploni [what is the law]?

R. Yosi: A Shechiv Mera is Mezakeh (transfers ownership verbally) only matters acquired through [one Kinyan, i.e.] a document (e.g. land and slaves) or Meshichah (Metaltelim). These (documents) are acquired [only] through Meshichah and [another] document!

Support (Beraisa): A boat is acquired through Meshichah. All say so;

R. Nasan says, a boat [is through Meshichah, like you said]. A document is acquired through Meshichah and a document. If he wrote but did not do Meshichah, or did Meshichah but did not write, it has no effect until he writes and does Meshichah.