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When a man betroths a woman saying "Here is one dinar, you will be betrothed once I complete the hundred," is this a conditional kiddushin that takes effect retroactively, or is she betrothed immediately with an obligation to pay? The shiur resolves the Gemara (גמרא)'s difficulty by showing this is not a standard tanai; rather, the man obligates himself to pay, giving her control—she can waive the debt and force the marriage.
This shiur analyzes Kiddushin 8a, focusing on the Gemara (גמרא)'s discussion of a case where a man gives a woman one dinar and says she will be betrothed when he completes a hundred. The central question is whether this creates an untenable situation where the woman becomes an agunah—unable to marry anyone else because he might pay later, yet unable to force him to complete the marriage. Rabbi Zweig begins by highlighting the fundamental difficulty: if we read this as a standard conditional kiddushin (tanai), the woman is trapped. She cannot back out because the kiddushin could take effect retroactively when he pays, yet she has no ability to compel him to pay. No reasonable woman would agree to such an arrangement, yet the Gemara seems to assume this is the intent even without explicit stipulation.
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Kiddushin 8a
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