Gittin 2:7-3:1

Gittin 2:7

Even the women who are not believed if they report that a woman’s husband died are reliable to deliver a get. These include a woman’s mother-in-law, her mother-in-law’s daughter, a rival wife of her husband, her sister-in-law and her step-daughter. The difference between delivering a get and reporting a death is the document, which serves as proof. A woman may bring her own get to court for validation provided that she reports that it was written and signed in her presence.

Gittin 3:1

If a get was not written for a woman, it is invalid. For example, let’s say that a man was walking through the marketplace and he heard scribes practice writing a text saying that a man of a certain name divorces a woman of a certain name from a certain city. Even if those names are those of him and his wife, he cannot use such a document as a get. Not only that, if one man wrote it to divorce his wife but he changed his mind, then a neighbor found it and their names were the same as the first couple’s names, the neighbor may not use this document as a get. Furthermore, if a man had two wives with the same name and he wrote a get to divorce one, he may not use it to divorce the other. Even if he told the scribe to write the get and he would pick which wife to give it to later, he cannot use it to divorce either of them.