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When a husband claims pesach (פסח) pasuach to deny paying kesubah, why is he believed in galus but must prove his case in Yehuda? The shiur develops the tension between safek not paying kesubah versus the chazakah ein adam poreia sudah mafsida, showing how memory lapses and miggo arguments complicate the halachic determination.
This shiur analyzes a complex sugya in Kesubos 9b regarding a husband's claim of pesach (פסח) pasuach (finding his wife non-virgin) and its effect on kesubah payments. Rabbi Zweig begins by examining the apparent contradiction between two sugyos: the previous sugya suggested that in cases of safek (doubt), one doesn't pay kesubah, yet here we see that in Yehuda, the husband must pay despite his claim. The core issue revolves around the husband's believability when claiming pesach pasuach. Rashi (רש"י) explains that the husband is believed because of chazakah ein adam poreia sudah mafsida (a person doesn't make a feast for nothing) - since he made a wedding feast, he wouldn't falsely claim his wife was not a virgin. However, this creates a fundamental problem: if we generally follow the principle that in cases of doubt one doesn't pay kesubah, why must the husband pay in Yehuda?
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Kesubos 9b
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