1,748. Giving a Get to a Servant

Hilchos Geirushin 5:17

Let’s say a man gives his wife’s get to her servant. If the servant is awake, bound, and the woman is watching him, then divorce is effected the same as it would be if the get were deposited in her courtyard while she stood next to it. If the servant isn’t bound, divorce is not effected. If the man puts the get in a sleeping servant’s hand while the woman watches the latter, the get is invalid (rabbinically) but if the servant is bound, then she’s divorced.

Hilchos Geirushin 5:18

Let’s say that a man writes a get and puts it in his own servant’s hand. He then writes a document legally giving his wife the servant as a gift. If the servant is bound, then divorce is effected because she acquires the get along with the servant. If the servant not bound but he is awake, then she acquires the servant but she isn’t divorced until the get reaches her hand. Similarly, if the man put the get in his own courtyard and he then sold the courtyard to his wife, or gave it to her as a gift, then divorce is effected as soon as she acquires the courtyard through a document or money, or by demonstrating her ownership of the property.