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that the signing must be performed for her sake? If it is in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, he requires signing for her sake; however, he does not require that the writing must be for her sake. As we learned in a Mishnah (21b): One may not write a bill of divorce on anything that is attach
If it is in accordance with the opinion of R' Elazar, who disagrees with R' Meir and requires that the writing must be for her sake, he does not require that the signing must be for her sake. And if you would say that actually the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Elazar, and when R'
As we learned in a Mishnah (86a): 3 bills of divorce are invalid ab initio, but if the woman married another man after having received one of these bills of divorce the offspring is of unflawed lineage. In other words, she is not considered to be a married woman who had sex with another man, which w
The Mishnah continues: R' Elazar says: Even though there are no signatures of witnesses on the document, but he gave it to her in the presence of two witnesses, it is a valid bill of divorce. And on the basis of this bill of divorce the woman can collect the amount written to her in her marriage co
But rather, you can say that the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, and when R' Meir does not require that the writing must be for her sake, he meant by Torah law, whereas by rabbinic law he does require that the writing must be for her sake. However, the Talmud raises a diffic