Commentary for Bava Metzia 36:1

חיישינן לשני שוירי וא"ל רב חסדא לרבה פוק עיין בה דלאורתא בעי מינך רב הונא נפק דק ואשכח דתנן כל מעשה ב"ד הרי זה יחזיר

We apprehend that there may be two places called Shawire.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even when the messenger who lost the bill of divorcement appears before us and testifies that the husband who lives in Shawire sent him to deliver it, and there is no other man with the same name as the husband (and no other woman of the same name as the wife) known to be living in that place, we apprehend that there may be another place called Shawire where a man of the same name (and a woman of the same name) exists, and therefore we do not return the document. [This might better be rendered as a question: Do we apprehend that there may be two places called Shawire? v. Strashun, a.l.] ');">¹</span>

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