If he snatched a selah from her and then gave it to her and said, "Behold, you are betrothed to me!'', she is betrothed.

Question: How did he betroth her? (It was not his money as she did not give up hope of getting it back!)

R. Chagai citing R. Pedas: She wishes to be married (so she allowed him to acquire it in order to be able to betroth her) and she is happy to be owed the money (as a debt).

R. Yosi: If the case involved a utensil, your explanation would be necessary, but since it was money, the way of money is to replaced (so she certainly relied on him to acquire the money for Kidushin and to pay her back another time.)

Beraisa: If a man said, "Accept this selah (as a deposit)'' and when he gave it to her he said, "Behold you are betrothed to me'', she is betrothed.

If it was after he gave her the money, if she said explicitly that she wishes, she is betrothed; if not, she is not betrothed.

If he said, "Take this selah that I owe you, and when he gave it he betrothed her, if she explicitly said that she wishes, she is betrothed; if not, she is not betrothed.

If after it came to her hand, he betrothed her, even if they both wish, she is not betrothed.

What should she do? Take it back from her and again give it to her and say, "Behold you are betrothed to me''.

Beraisa: If a man said, "Be betrothed to me with this mana (100 zuz) and it was found to be less than that, she is not betrothed.

If it contained a "bad dinar'', she is betrothed and he must exchange that coin.

If he was counting it out one by one and throwing it into her hand, she can retract her acceptance until he finishes counting it out.

If he said, "Be betrothed to me with a mana and he gave her (just) a dinar -

R. Elazar: She is already betrothed and the rest becomes a stipulation (that he must pay).

R. Yochanan: She is only betrothed when he completes the payment.

They said that R. Yochanan retracted...

Once a person gave a security to his friend (for an item that he had purchased from him) and his friend later denied receiving it.

R. Ba, R. Hila and R. Yaakov bar Acha all said that he had bought from him flax seed and had given him some of the money (not a security) and the seller then retracted.

The case came before R. Yochanan and he ruled that either the seller should give him the entire amount of flax seeds, or he will receive the curse of "mi shepara'' (i.e. a curse for a seller retracting after receiving the payment for a movable object).

R. Chiya bar Yosef disagreed: Either the seller should give him the amount of seeds equivalent to the money he had already received or he will receive the curse of "mi shepara''.

But R. Chiya bar Yosef agrees to R. Yochanan in the case of an item that is not usually sold in parts, such as a cow or a garment.

Conclusion of proof: Is a woman acquired in parts? (Rather, it must be that when he pays for part of her, the husband automatically acquires all of her. This shows that R. Yochanan retracted and held that the Kidushin should take effect as soon as the first part of the payment was given.)

R. Chagai/ R Yudan: An item is acquired in parts (as even a cow, for example, is slaughtered and the meat is divided) but a woman is never acquired in parts.

If a man said, "Be betrothed to me with this cup of wine'' and it was found to be honey; or vice-versa;

Or if he said, "...with this silver dinar'' and it was found to be gold; or vice-versa;

Or if he said, "...on condition that I am poor'' and he was found to be rich; or vice-versa; (in all of these cases) she is not betrothed.

R. Shimon: If it was worth more than he claimed, she is betrothed.

If he said, "...on condition that I am a Kohen'' and he was found to be a Levi; or vice-versa;

If he said, "...on condition that I am a Nasin'' and he was found to be a Mamzer; or vice-versa;

If he said, "...on condition that I am from a town'' and he was found to be from a city; or vice-versa;

If he said, "...on condition that my house is close to the bathhouse'' and it was found to be far for there; or vice-versa;

If he said, "...on condition that I have a daughter or maidservant who is well-respected'' (see Talmud Bavli Kidushin 49a) and he was found not to have one; or vice-versa;

If he said, "...on condition that I have children'' and it was found that he did not; or vice-versa;

In all of these cases, even if she said that in my heart I would have nevertheless married him, she is still not betrothed.

This also applies if she deceived him.

(Gemara): If he said, "...with this cup and its contents''; if their combined value is a Perutah, she is betrothed.

If he said, "acquire (in) it'' - if the contents alone were worth a Perutah, she is betrothed; if not, she is not betrothed.

Why do we not also consider the value of the cup itself? His wording of "acquire (in) it'' denotes only the contents.