Commentary for Bava Batra 319:3

גט פשוט עדיו בשנים ומקושר בשלשה פשוט שכתב בו עד אחד ומקושר שכתב בו שני עדים שניהם פסולין:

R. SIMEON B. GAMALIEL SAID: ALL DEPENDS ON<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'like'. ');">⁷</span> THE USAGE OF THE COUNTRY. A PLAIN DEED REQUIRES TWO WITNESSES<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'its witnesses by two'. [Meir Abulafia, in his Yad Ramah, explains 'a folded deed' differently. 'We take,' he writes, 'a long scroll, and draw from it three to seven thongs below which there comes the written text of the deed. The deed is then folded, special care being taken that the bottom of the reverse of the deed should remain exposed for the signatures of the witnesses. The scroll being rolled together and fastened by the thongs which are knotted together, the witnesses sign between the knots.' This, as Fischer, L. (ZAW. XXX, 139ff.) points out, is in accord with the 'folded deeds' discovered among the Greek papyri. V. also his article in Jahrb. de Jud. Lit., Gesel. IX. 51ff.] ');">⁸</span> AND A FOLDED [ONE] THREE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The folded deed contained two elements. The specific (date and amount), and the Formula which is common to all deeds. The first element usually occupied three lines which were folded on the intervening blank lines and stitched together. Hence no less than three witnesses were required. Cf. infra n. 14. ');">⁹</span>

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