| This of course assumes the marriage took place in an English-speaking country | Whereas the bride has no such leverage over the groom when the groom is the person wanting to dissolve the marriage |
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| The Hebrew part also talks about how many zuzim silver pieces the bride is worth, which also might not be something that the couple wants to advertise | This 200 zuzim also goes into the escrow account, making a total of 400 zuzim |
But Aramaic and Hebrew use the same character set, and the words in the two languages are often similar.
20| Note that there are only two signatures required — that of the two witnesses | The number of ten-thousands when we get that far is feminine, the number of thousands is masculine, the number of hundreds feminine, and the number of tens is masculine |
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| The Hebrew part is the same on every Jewish marriage contract, and the basic wording has been unchanged for thousands of years | The Lieberman clause, created by Talmudic scholar Saul Lieberman, is a clause inserted into the contract to prevent the groom from refusing to apply for the Jewish divorce |
And I will also give you your food, clothing, and necessities, and live with you as husband and wife according to the universal custom.
24| תמיד עם סבלנות והסבר על מצב בריאותי וההמלצה שלו | And he agrees to mortgage everything he owns, even the shirt off his back, in order to pay that settlement |
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| There are just two things | After you have your blank Ketubah and your desired text, you use your favorite photo-editing program to copy-and-paste the text onto the blank Ketubah |
And Goldeh, the virgin consented and became his wife.
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