Commentary for Gittin 176:16

ה"ק יצא שמה בעיר מקודשת הרי זו מקודשת מקודשת ומגורשת

If that is the case [he rejoined], we should do the same with robberies and injuries?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whereas the law is that for them ordained judges are necessary. V. ibid. ');">¹⁵</span> — We carry out their commission in matters which are of frequent occurrence, but not in matters which occur infrequently.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. B.K. 84b. ');">¹⁶</span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF COMMON REPORT IN THE TOWN DECLARES A WOMAN TO BE BETROTHED, SHE IS REGARDED [BY THE <i>BETH DIN</i>] AS BETROTHED;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And she must not marry another man without receiving a Get from the first. ');">¹⁷</span> IF TO BE DIVORCED, SHE IS REGARDED AS DIVORCED.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Apparently this means that if the husband is a priest, she can no longer continue to live with him. But v. the Gemara infra. ');">¹⁸</span> [THIS, HOWEVER, IS ONLY THE CASE] PROVIDED THE REPORT HAS NO QUALIFICATION.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] a reason for correcting the report. ');">¹⁹</span> WHAT IS MEANT BY A QUALIFICATION? [IF THE REPORT IS,] SO-AND-SO DIVORCED HIS WIFE CONDITIONALLY, HE THREW HER THE BETROTHAL MONEY, BUT IT IS UNCERTAIN WHETHER IT LANDED NEARER TO HER OR NEARER TO HIM — THIS IS A QUALIFICATION.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And no attention is paid to the report. ');">²⁰</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. And do we [on the strength of such a report] declare her<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The one reported to have been divorced. ');">²¹</span> prohibited to her husband? Has not R. Ashi said that we take no notice of reports spread after marriage? — What [the Mishnah] means is this: 'If common report declares her to be betrothed, we regard her as betrothed; if it declares her to have been betrothed and then divorced,

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