Gittin 2:3-4

Gittin 2:3

A get may be written with any substance: ink, dye, paint, resin, vitriol or anything else that is permanent. One may not write a get with beverages, fruit juice or anything impermanent. One may write on anything, such as on an olive leaf, on a cow’s horn – and he gives her the cow – or on a servant’s hand – and he gives her the servant. Rabbi Yosi HaGlili says one may not write a get on a living being or on food items.

Gittin 2:4

A get may not be written on anything that is attached to the ground. If a man wrote a get on something that was attached to the ground, then he detached it, signed it and gave it to his wife, it is a valid get. Rabbi Yehuda says a get is not valid unless it is both written and signed on something that has already been detached. Rabbi Yehuda ben Beseira says that one may not write a get on paper that has been erased or on unprocessed parchment because they can be tampered with but the Sages permit such documents.

PreviousNext

Grateful Thanks for the Mishna Yomit Dedication of
Rabbi Louis Leifer and Mrs. Miriam D. Leifer z"l

מרת מרים דבורה בת ר׳ צבי הירשנפטרה א טבת - תשע״דהרב אליעזר בן אהרון הלוינפטר כח סיון - תשס״א

Miriam D. LeiferDecember 4, 2013Rabbi Louis Leifer
Sponsor a Shiur