Whether a Woman Under the Canopy Yet Unconsummated Is a Wife

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 89:3

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Rabbi Chanina taught: "and she is a married woman" (literally, possessed by a husband; Deuteronomy 22:22). A woman possessed by a husband is included; but one who has entered the wedding canopy and has not had relations is not included.

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