See Yadin, Greenfield and Yardeni, Babathas Ketubba, p. 94. The other, Galilean custom, allows the widow to remain and be maintained in her late husbands house unless she remarries. The Palestinian Talmud, Ketubbot 4.15 (29a), approves of the Galilean practice as honorable and disdains the Judean as mercenary.
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