Mehullelet (a woman who has been profaned). Incidently Moshe Shulman is perfectly right that when the Ketuba was a real contract and not a ceremonial one,I never disputed this, the Ketuba IS a legal document, and I never ever said or implied that it was a ceremonial one. Not at all. And the word Betula was used to denote a woman not previously married, because her LEGAL status and rights according to Ketuba and the rabbis who instituted it, are different than those of a woman who was already married and widowed or divorced.
The Ketuba was not a document whose purpose was to morally judge a woman's virtue - the rabbis were wise enough then, to leave that as a private matter.
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