Commentary for Gittin 42:5
ורבנן האי וכתב מאי עבדי ליה מיבעי להו בכתיבה מתגרשת ואינה מתגרשת בכסף ס"ד אמינא אקיש יציאה להויה מה הוייה בכסף אף יציאה נמי בכסף קמ"ל
How do I know that any thing will serve the purpose? Because it says, 'and he write her', that is to say, any form of written document — If so why does it specify 'book'? To show that, just as a 'book' is not animate and does not eat, so the document used for the Get must be inanimate and not a thing which eats. What do the Rabbis [who allow this say to this]? — [They can reply:] If the text had written be sefer ['in a book'], your deduction would be correct, but as it writes sefer it refers only to the record [sefirath,]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'telling'. ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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