Commentary for Gittin 52:3
ובדין הוא דאפי' תורף נמי לכתוב וזמנין דשמעה ליה לסופר דקא כתיב וסברה איהו קאמר ליה והוה לה קטטה בהדיה
R. Shabbathai said in the name of R. Hezekiah: [The words TO PREVENT HARDSHIP] mean 'to prevent quarrelling', [the Mishnah] following R. Meir who said that the signatures of the witnesses make [the Get] effective. and by rights it should be permitted to the scribe to write [beforehand] even the substantive part, but in that case it might happen that a woman might hear a scribe [reading over] what he had written and she might think that her husband had told him to write and so fall out with him. R. Hisda said in the name of Abimi: It is for the relief of deserted wives. Some say [that this interpretation] follows R. Meir, and some say that it follows R. Eleazar. Some say it follows R. Meir who held that the witnesses to the signatures make [the Get] effective, and therefore by rights it is permissible to put in beforehand even the substantive part of the Get, only it may happen sometimes that a husband falls out with his wife and in a passion throws her [the Get] and then makes her remain a deserted wife.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because since the Get is written but not signed she is neither divorced nor married. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
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