Gittin 9:4-5

Gittin 9:4

Three types of get are invalid, but if the woman remarried, her child is not a mamzer: (1) If the husband wrote the get himself but there are no witnesses’ signatures; (2) if there are witnesses’ signatures but there is no date; (3) if there is a date but only one witness signed. Rabbi Elazar says that even if there are no witnesses’ signatures, if the husband gave her the get in front of witnesses, it is valid. She may even collect the value of her kesubah based upon such a get because the requirement for witnesses’ signatures was only instituted for its societal benefit (tikkun olam).

Gittin 9:5

If two men sent two identical gets but they got mixed up, the messenger must give both gets to each woman. If one of the gets is lost, the other one becomes invalidated (because we don’t know whose it is). If five men write all together in a single get that man A divorces woman A, man B divorces woman B, etc., and witnesses signed at the bottom, the document is valid for all five divorces and it must be delivered to each of the five wives. If the five men write the text of five separate gets in succession and witnesses sign at the bottom, it is only a get for whichever couple’s names are read together with the signatures.