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this partition was established by a person and is therefore fit.
§ The Master said in the baraita that in the name of R' Yosei HaGelili they said: Nor may one write bills of divorce on it. The Talmud asks: What is the rationale for the opinion of R' Yosei HaGelili? It is as it is taught in a baraita with regard to the verse: “When a man takes a wife, and marrie
If so, what is the meaning of that which the verse states: Scroll? It is to tell you that a bill of divorce must be written on a surface like a scroll: Just as a scroll is neither alive nor is it food, so too, a bill of divorce may be written on any object that is neither alive nor food. That is
The Talmud asks: And how do the Rabbis, who disagree and say that a bill of divorce may be written even on a living creature or on food, interpret the verse? They contend: If the verse had written: That he write for her in the scroll [basefer], it would be as you said, that the bill of divorce m
The Talmud continues: And what do the Rabbis derive from the phrase: “That he write her”? The Talmud answers: That phrase is required to teach the principle that a woman is divorced only by means of writing, i.e., a bill of divorce, and she is not divorced by means of money. It might have entered