Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Even HaEzer/27

Seif 1: With money, how? In front of two people, he gives her a peruta or its equivalent and says to her “behold, you are sanctified to me with this.”

Seif 3: If he says to her: -	You are designated to me. -	You are special to me. -	You are my help against me, -	You are my rib, -	You are my closing, -	You are my gathering, -	You are my possession, Then she is doubtfully engaged.

Seif 4: If he says you are sanctified, but did not say to me, then she is not married to him. And such is the essence, but there are those who are strict and say that this is a marriage. If he was speaking to her about marriage related matters, then it is a valid marriage. Seif 6: If he said to her: -	I am your husband -	I am your master -	I am betrothed to you Then nothing has happened even if he was originally speaking with her about marriage-related matters because it is written “when a man take,” not “when he takes himself.”

Seif 7: If she gives him money and she says I am betrothed to you, she is not betrothed.

Seif 8: If he gave her [money] and she speaks [i.e. the engagement formula], if he was speaking with her about matters of betrothal, it is definitely betrothal, and if not, it is a case of doubtful betrothal. And if the husband answered “yes,” at the time of the giving, it is definitely betrothal, if they were not speaking of that matter [i.e. about getting married].

Seif 9: If she gives him money and says to him: take this dinar as a gift and I will become betrothed to you, and he takes it and says to her, you are betrothed to me via the pleasure that I received from you as a gift—if he is an important person, then she is betrothed, for she receives benefit from his benefiting from her, and this benefit [that she receives] acquires her for him. And we require asking a sage if a certain person is not considered important so as to permit her to remarry without a get. Rema: And there are those who are stringent, even where she did not say originally when she gave it: “I will be betrothed to you,” rather, she gave it without any statement and he said to her, “Be betrothed to me, etc.” and she was quiet.

Seif 10: The amount of Kesef with which one effects bethrothal has the weight of a half of a barley-grain of purified silver.