“ And now that we have learned ‘shakedu’,15 that [Mishnah] which we have learned: If the time arrived and they were not married, they eat of his [food] and they eat of terumah, [is to be understood as implying that if] the time arrived on the first day in the week, since he cannot marry [her, on the first day of the week, on account of the ordinance] , he does not give her food [on the three days, from the first day of the week to the fourth day] . Therefore16 [R. Joseph concludes] , if he became ill or she became ill, or she became menstruous,17 he does not give her food. ”

“ Can he say unto her, ‘I am here ready to marry you’? Or, perhaps, she can say unto him, ‘His field27 has been flooded’?28 And if you will say [that] she can say to him [when she falls ill] , ‘His field has been flooded.’ [then the question is,] if she became menstrous, what is [the law] ? ”