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And that is the case only when there was an adult standing over him. When the adult supervises the writing, and instructs him to write it for her sake, it will be valid.
Rav Naḥman said to him: If that is so, that anyone who is disqualified from writing a bill of divorce may do so with an adult supervising him, then if the one writing is a non-Jew, and a Jew stands over him and instructs him to write it for her sake, would you also say that it is valid? And if you
Rav Naḥman then said: What I said when I raised a challenge from a case involving a non-Jew is not correct, as from the fact that the Mishnah later disqualifies a non-Jew with regard to acting as an agent in the bringing of the bill of divorce, one can learn by inference that he is qualified with r
The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in a baraita that a non-Jew is disqualified from writing a bill of divorce? The Talmud answers: That baraita is in accordance with the opinion of R' Elazar, who says: Witnesses of the transmission of the bill of divorce effect the divorce, and when the verse stat
With regard to the requirement that a bill of divorce be written for her sake, Rav Naḥman says that R' Meir would have said: Even if the husband found the bill of divorce in the garbage dump, and the names written on it happened to be the same as his and his wife’s names, if he had it signed by witn