Commentary for Gittin 10:7
איתמר בפני כמה נותנו לה רבי יוחנן ור' חנינא חד אמר בפני שנים וחד אמר בפני שלשה
— [Can this be so?] We have found that it is R. Joshua who assigns as the reason ignorance of the rule of 'special intention', and so it must be R. Johanan who assigns as the reason the difficulty of finding witnesses. How then can it be R. Johanan who here says that two persons are sufficient? Moreover [is it not a fact] that Rabbah also accepts Raba's reason? No. [The reason of the declaration is because] we need witnesses who should be available to validate the Get, and the point at issue here is whether it is permitted to an agent to act as a witness and a witness as a judge. The authority who says that two persons are sufficient holds that an agent may act as witness and a witness may act as judge,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And therefore the bearer of the Get may join with the two witnesses of the delivery to form a Beth din. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
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