Daf Yomi for Women – דף יומי לנשים

Before the main section of the get (toref) was written, if the husband tells the sofer that he plans to permit his wife to everyone except one man but he doesn’t ask the sofer to write that in the get, does that ruin the get and he needs to write a new one?  Rava and Rav Safra argue about this.  Does writing a condition in a get invalidate the get?  Argument between Rebbi and the rabbis.  What if the husband says that she is permitted to all men except for those she is forbidden to by law?  There is a difference depending on the severity of the law.  What if he separates from her but leaves over one of the rights a husband has to a wife like being able to cancel her vows, not allowing her to eat truma, etc.?  What is the basic text that needs to be written in the get?  There is a disagreement in the mishna and then later developments in the time of the gemara.  See attached file for the text of an actual get and a hebrew translation of it.  Also attached is an English translation – courtesy: ITIM.

Study Guide Gittin 85

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Rabbi Eliezer and the rabbis disagree about a man who says while giving the get that the wife is limited in who she can remarry.  There is a difference of opinion in which case they argue – is it only in the case where he states it as a condition but if he says “except for…” then the get for sure doesn’t work.  Or is the argument in a case where he says “except for…” but in the case where he states it as a condition, everyone agrees the get is a good get.  The gemara concludes like the latter and thereby it unfortunately leads to actual cases that the courts have dealt with where a husband, for example, conditioned a get on his wife not being able to remarry large groups of men (for example, men under 70).

Study Guide Gittin 82

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If a get in not written according to particular laws instituted by the Rabbis, Rabbi Meir holds that a woman who gets remarried based on this is forbidden both to her first husband and to the second one and children born from the second or her remarriage to the first are mamzerim.  There are also many other ramifications such as, the woman loses her ketuba, she can’t eat truma and many others.  According to the gemara, the rabbis disagree with Rabbi Meir about some of the cases.  There is a difference of opinion whether he thinks a woman can get remarried based on this get or only if she is already remarried and has children, we don’t consider her children mamzerim.  A similar situation occurs when a husband dies childless and one of the wives either is forbidden to one of the brothers, thus allowing all other wives to marry others without performing yibum, or one of the wives marry the brother and the other wives marry others and then they find out that the wife (who was forbidden or married the brother) was an aylonit (someone who can’t have children and never shows signs of puberty) and was therefore never married in the first place.  The other wives now can’t stay married to their new husband and also have to do chalitza with the brother.

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