Commentary for Gittin 127:15
ואמאי וליהימניה לשליש מי קא נפיק גיטא מתותי ידיה דלהימניה
If the husband says [that he gave it to the depository] to divorce with, and the depository says [it was given] to divorce with, and the wife says, He gave it to me but it has been lost, R. Johanan says: This is a statement bearing on forbidden relationships, and a statement bearing on a forbidden relationship must be substantiated by not less than two witnesses. But why so? Why not believe the depository? — Is he able to produce the Get that we should believe him? Then let us believe the husband, in accordance with what R. Hiyya b. Abin said in the name of R. Johanan: If a husband says, I have divorced my wife, his word can be taken? — Does he here say, I have divorced her?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He appointed an agent to hand it over to her. ');"><sup>13</sup></span>
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