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Gittin (Divorce) הלכות גיטין

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119Reasons Justifying Giving a GetSiman 119 · 6 seifim
  1. 1.As a matter of strict law, a husband may…
  2. 2.A man divorces only according to his own will.
  3. 3.A woman who is bad-tempered and is not modest…
  4. 4.It is not fitting for a proper person to…
  5. 5.The practice in certain courts in some places, that…
  6. 6.If the court sees that there is a need…
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121One Must Retain Intent from the Writing of the Get Until Its GivingSiman 121 · 3 seifim
  1. 1.The get must be written by the husband or…
  2. 2.One who instructed that a get be written for…
  3. 3.If the husband instructed that the get be written…
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124On What the Get Is WrittenSiman 124 · 3 seifim
  1. 1.A get that was written properly, and gold flakes…
  2. 2.One should wait and not deliver the get into…
  3. 3.A get written with invisible ink (mei milin) —…
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125With What the Get Is Written, and Correction of the Writing and ParchmentSiman 125 · 4 seifim
  1. 1.A scribe who erred in a get and extended…
  2. 2.The foot of the letter heh in a get…
  3. 3.A witness named Chaim who mistakenly signed the get…
  4. 4.The custom has already spread in the Land of…
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126The Wording of the Get and the Precision of Its LettersSiman 126 · 16 seifim
  1. 1.It is good to write a get for a…
  2. 2.A get in which the father's name was omitted,…
  3. 3.A get was found to contain an error, where…
  4. 4.It is customary to lengthen the vavs of the…
  5. 5.A scribe who omitted the word "kan" ("here") at…
  6. 6.In a get sent by agency from abroad, where…
  7. 7.Regarding the epithet of the name of the husband…
  8. 8.The name Falah should not be written with two…
  9. 9.For one who is known by two names, one…
  10. 10.A get written with the word "peturin" without a…
  11. 11.A get in which the year was written "five…
  12. 12.A get in which was written "veshaltana benafshichi" instead…
  13. 13.If the scribe erred and omitted one word from…
  14. 14.A get sent by agency from a distance to…
  15. 15.A get sent by agency in which complete separation…
  16. 16.A get in which the woman's name and her…
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127The Law of Writing the Date in the Get, and the Law of Order (Preceding and Following)Siman 127 · 4 seifim
  1. 1.One must write the date in the get, and…
  2. 2.A scribe who erred and omitted the phrase "since…
  3. 3.Even according to our custom of writing in the…
  4. 4.In a place where caravans travel frequently between here…
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128The Place of the Man and the WomanSiman 128 · 3 seifim
  1. 1.One must mention in the get the name of…
  2. 2.A get by agency in which "wherever you may…
  3. 3.Regarding "write and give" (kitvu u'tenu) when the husband…
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129Laws of the Names of the Man and Woman and the Signing of the GetSiman 129 · 20 seifim
  1. 1.It is very fitting that in every court that…
  2. 2.If the husband is Sephardic and the wife Ashkenazic,…
  3. 3.A Sephardic husband and wife coming to divorce, where…
  4. 4.One who is called by his family "Salamo" and…
  5. 5.Regarding the foreign name "George," where the husband is…
  6. 6.The names in the get should be written according…
  7. 7.A get written abroad and sent to the Land…
  8. 8.A get by agency brought from the United States,…
  9. 9.A get in which the wife's father's name was…
  10. 10.A get by agency from abroad in which the…
  11. 11.One whose name is Avraham and everyone calls him…
  12. 12.One whose name is Yissachar and everyone calls him…
  13. 13.People who are called by foreign names abroad, in…
  14. 14.Those called by French names, such as "Bertrand," which…
  15. 15.A righteous convert who comes to divorce his wife…
  16. 16.A get by agency received from the city of…
  17. 17.A woman named Miriam, called "Miriam" after Miriam the…
  18. 18.Even though it is not customary to write a…
  19. 19.When writing a get in Paris, France, one should…
  20. 20.A get by agency brought from the city of…
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+Laws of the Signing of the GetSiman 129 (continued) · 5 seifim
  1. 1a.A get in which the witnesses distanced their signatures…
  2. 2a.A woman who was divorced abroad and presented before…
  3. 1b.If the woman's hands are wrapped in a bandage…
  4. 2b.It is permitted to hand the get from his…
  5. 3.Some say that a husband whose hands are amputated…
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+The Law of an Agent in a GetSiman 140 (continued) · 1 seifim
  1. 1.What the Sages said, that "words are not transmitted…
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149Seclusion After the Giving of the GetSiman 149 · 2 seifim
  1. 1.An unmarried woman who conceived outside of marriage, and…
  2. 2.A couple registered abroad in a civil marriage, not…
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154The Order of Giving the GetSiman 154 · 21 seifim
  1. 1a.Regarding the custom in Egypt and in several places…
  2. 2a.A woman who was divorced by a get in…
  3. 1b.Regarding the Karaites, whether it is possible to permit…
  4. 2b.Regarding the adoption of children from abroad, where there…
  5. 3.Regarding a "killer wife" (katlanit) whose first two husbands…
  6. 4.Regarding whether it is permitted to marry the wife…
  7. 5.Regarding the Ethiopian immigrants, the Falashas, whether their status…
  8. 6.A divorced couple with a fourteen-year-old daughter, where the…
  9. 7.A woman who married a Kohen, and before her…
  10. 8.A woman who underwent surgery and had her womb…
  11. 9.A single witness testifying that the husband was killed,…
  12. 10.A gentile who testified that the husband was killed,…
  13. 11.Regarding an agunah who testified that the accursed Nazis,…
  14. 12.Regarding the terrible attack that occurred in the United…
  15. 13.Regarding a permit for an agunah, in the case…
  16. 14.One who drowned at Niagara Falls in Canada, on…
  17. 15.A woman who said before the court that she…
  18. 16.When there is doubt whether the witness who saw…
  19. 17.A woman who married in a "Reform" synagogue by…
  20. 18.Regarding a young woman born to a Jewish mother…
  21. 19.A "test-tube baby" is attributed to his father for…
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