Composite manuscript: Hebrew letters to the Jewish court of Paris by Pinchas Michael Abdallah (Gaster Hebrew MS 1207)

with the tribe of Benjamin will prove clearly that she was not a kedeshah. For surely the commandment of the Oral Torah speaks of the secondary matters, and marriage (which currently is what seals them, the essence of the statute), that he takes the woman with money worth a perutah small coin or with a document that was in the lap in place of a ketubah marriage contract, behold she is his wife in every respect without him doing an act. And if one of them is caught taking a woman, she needs a get divorce document from him to permit her to be married to another man. But the Torah teaches a statute without a ketubah and marriage, and he performs an act with her until there is for her a taker from the thousand who permit and promise to the masses. And under her [husband?], she will be married to whomever she wishes to take her. Who [can say] all these laws and judgments such as these are overturned in Paris and complete [destruction]? And they are the opposite of the perfect Torah of the Lord, which restores the soul. It is written in the portion of Ki Tetzei When You Go Out, chapter 22, verse 28:

"If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found,"

Verse 29:

"Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days."

And if he lay with her with her consent and with the consent of her father, behold she is his wife in marriage according to the law of the Torah. And if he does not desire her, he is obligated to give her a scroll of severance divorce to permit her to be married to whomever she desires to take her. The law of marriage according to the law of the Torah we learn from the marriage of Isaac our father, in the portion of Chayei Sarah Life of Sarah, chapter 24. One must publicize the matter of the marriage, as it is written in verse 54:

"And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night," etc.

And it must be with the consent of her father and her mother to the health of the living, and also it must be with the consent of the damsel, and it is the essence and root of her marriage. And if she gave herself to them with her consent and love, we are all obligated to her. She was given to the man who is the lineage of her husband, for therefore the man also will turn to obligation for her and as a stronghold, amen.