Powtórzonego Prawa 22:19 Komentarz: Chizkuni, Ramban, Ibn Ezra & Tur HaArokh

ונתנו לאבי הנערה, “and they (the elders of the town) give to the father of the girl;” all of the elders. The word נער is repeatedly spelled without the letter ה at the end of the word in this paragraph, but here it is read as if spelled with that letter, suggesting that harmony is being restored through the procedure decreed by the Torah.

AND THEY SHALL FINE HIM A HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER. The meaning thereof is that after the husband was administered stripes — a punishment deduced from the expression and they shall chastise him²⁰⁷Verse 18. Kethuboth 46a. — [he is to be fined a hundred shekels of silver]. For it was customary to write over a dowry of fifty shekels of silver to a virgin, but this person defamed her because he hated her and he wanted to send her away empty-handed. Therefore Scripture punished him with [a fine of] a hundred silver shekels, for the Torah punishes with a twofold measure, as in the case of the verse, he shall pay double.²⁰⁸Exodus 22:3. Although a kethubah (marriage contract) is only a matter of Rabbinic ordinance²⁰⁹See ibid., 22:15 — Vol. II, p. 387. for whoever made such a condition with her, or who married her without qualification, yet it was customary to write a dowry for virgins, just as it is said, according to the dowry of virgins,²¹⁰Ibid., Verse 16. and the majority did so. And if this woman had no kethubah, why should he have put forth wanton charges against her²¹¹Verse 14. because he came to her and he hated her — he should have written her a bill of divorce and be freed of her, as it is written, if you hate [her] send [her] away.²¹²Malachi 2:16. So interpreted by Rabbi Yehudah (Gittin 90b). [Instead he brought wanton charges against her, therefore he is fined double the normal amount of the dowry of virgins even if he had not given her a kethubah.]

all his days means that she will be forever his, until the day he dies.