during the day, or would prevent him from fully enjoying her, for a man may be reluctant to spoil her fast, even if it is voluntary.

Hiring oneself out means that she hires herself out to serve others as a domestic worker. He may prevent her from doing so, out of concern for her on the one hand, and because it entails a certain indignity that reflects upon her husband on the other: people would say, “So-and-so, the wife of so-and-so, is a servant in people’s homes.”

His statement, “from hiring herself out,” implies that if she is hired for a particular task—for example, if she is a seamstress who sews for people for payment in her own home—then he may not prevent her, unless he sees that this causes her to fall short in fulfilling his rights, in which case he may prevent her.

Thus, if a woman hires herself out, he may prevent her without qualification. Even if she says, “I want to hire myself out while you are away from the town,” he may prevent her, because of the indignity and humiliation involved. But if she is hired for a task while remaining in her husband’s home, he may not prevent her, unless she falls short in fulfilling his rights, in which case he may prevent her.

If someone were to ask: What do you say regarding teaching? Does it fall under his statement, “from hiring herself out,” or not?

The answer is: it does fall under it, because she will go to the school and teach. He may therefore prevent her from teaching, unless she stipulated in the marriage contract that she would remain a teacher, or that she would take up employment as a teacher in the future, and he accepted this