(Mishnah): If she says 'I want to stay in my father's house' the orphans can say 'if you are by us, we will feed you. If you are not by us, we will feed you.'

If she claims [that she cannot stay with them] because she is young and they are young, they feed her in her father's house.

(Gemara): If she claims young and they are young - this is due to ill repute (lest people suspect that she sins with her husband's sons from another wife).

Note: It seems that 'they are young' means bachelors, and so connotes TALMIDEI R. YONAH in SHITAH MEKUBETZES (103a).

(Mishnah): As long as a widow is in her father's house, she may always collect her Kesuvah. If she is in her (late) husband's house, she can collect until 25 years, for in 25 years, she does favors (for neighbors with the orphans' money) equivalent to her Kesuvah. R. Meir says so in the name of R. Gamliel;

Chachamim say that as long as she is in her husband's house, she may always collect her Kesuvah. If she is in her father's house, she can collect until 25 years;

If she died, her heirs mention her Kesuvah within 25 years.

(Gemara) Question: [If it is due to favors that she did,] she consumed the property [of her Kesuvah] in her husband's lifetime (if she was married for 25 years)!

Answer: Rather, in 25 years she pardoned her Kesuvah.

Question (R. Chiya bar Ashi citing R. Chiyah): They asked Rebbi, is it not reasonable [that she can collect only within 25 years] for a woman without a Kesuvah [document], but a woman with a Kesuvah, she collects forever?!

Answer: R. Elazar's teaching shows that even a woman with a Kesuvah collects only until 25 years;

[R. Elazar] said that a creditor collects forever.

He said only a creditor, but a woman [like a creditor, who has a document,] collects [her Kesuvah] only until 25 years!

Rebuttal: [Perhaps] he taught a bigger Chidush. (Even a creditor collects forever, and all the more so a Kesuvah, for we can say that she delayed claiming it due to disgrace of collection or lest she lose food. We explained this like SEFER NIR)

(R. Avin): Presumably, this is only a woman who is not fed, but a woman who is fed, I say that due to food she did not claim [her Kesuvah]!

Rebuttal (R. Yosi bei R. Bun): She need not claim [her Kesuvah within 25 years to show that she did not pardon it], rather, even if she mentioned it! (Therefore, even if she is fed, if she did not mention it within 25 years, she pardoned it);

(Mishnah): If she died, her heirs mention her Kesuvah until 25 years.

[Our Mishnah] teaches a bigger Chidush. Even if she was 25 years less one day and did not claim, and afterwards she claimed, we give to her another 25 years.

(R. Simon citing R. Yehoshua ben Levi): This refers only to an [Ikar] Kesuvah of 100 or 200, but a Kesuvah of 1000 Dinarim, she always collects it.

(R. Avahu citing R. Yochanan): Even a Kesuvah of 1000 Dinarim, she collects only until 25 years.

This argument is like the following argument;

(Mishnah): We appraise [land to collect] damages with Idis (best quality land), a creditor with Beinonis (medium quality land), and a woman's Kesuvah with Ziburis (lowest quality land).

(R. Yirmeyah): This refers only to an [Ikar] Kesuvah of 100 or 200, but a Kesuvah of 1000 Dinarim, she collects it from Beinonis.

(R. Yosi): Even a Kesuvah of 1000 Dinarim, she collects only from Ziburis.

R. Yosi holds like R. Yochanan, and R. Yirmeyah holds like R. Yehoshua ben Levi.

(Mishnah): One who wrote his property to his sons, and he wrote to his wife any amount of land, she lost her Kesuvah;

(Rav): This is when he was Mezakeh [to his sons] through her;

(Shmuel): It is when he divided [his property] in front of her.

(R. Yosi ben Chaninah): A leniency of Kesuvah was taught here;

(R. Ba): According to R. Yosi ben Chaninah's reason, not only an [Ikar] Kesuvah of 100 or 200, but even a Kesuvah of 1000 Dinarim [she lost]. A leniency of Kesuvah was taught here.