Commentary for Gittin 42:7
ואידך מיבעי ליה דבר הכורת בינו לבינה כדתניא הרי זה גיטיך על מנת שלא תשתי יין על מנת שלא תלכי לבית אביך לעולם אין זה כריתות עד שלשים יום הרי זה כריתות
— They require it to [deduce therefrom the rule that a woman] is divorced by a written document and not by a money gift. For you might think that her separation from her husband is to be effected in the same way as her union with him:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Deut. XXIV, 2, the two words denoting separation and union, [H] lit., 'she shall deport' and 'she shall be (another man's wife) occur in close juxtaposition, hence the suggested comparison. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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