Sunday, October 5, 2008

Gittin 86 - Three Gittin are Invalid

Three types of Get documents are invalid, but if she married on their basis anyway, the child she has from the second marriage is legitimate: a Get that the husband wrote in his own handwriting but there are no witnesses signed on it; a Get that has no date recorded on it; a Get that has only one witness signed on it.

Rabbi Elazar says, “Even though there are no witnesses signed on the Get, but he gave it to her in the presence of witnesses, it is valid, for witnesses sign on the Get only for the benefit of society.”

Art: Peace with Honour - Queen Victoria (1819-1901) with Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) following the signing of the Berlin Treaty in 1878 by THEODORE BLAKE WIRGMAN

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