Commentary for Kiddushin 9:10

כדתניא הרי זה גיטיך ע"מ שלא תשתי יין על מנת שלא תלכי לבית אביך לעולם אין זה כריתות כל שלשים יום הרי זה כריתות

And the Rabbis?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why state the whole phrase, when the word keritkuth itself is sufficient?');">²⁰</span> - In their opinion, the use of kerithuth instead of koreth has no particular significance. Now, one could not be inferred from another; yet let one be inferred from two others?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It was proved above that no one method of acquisition may be inferred from another a minori, hence a verse is necessary for each. Now the Talmud asks, Only two are required then the third follows by analogy: just as the two are methods of acquisition elsewhere, and also in marriage, so is the third. For each effects possession elsewhere, money and deed in ordinary purchases, and cohabitation in the case of a yebamah.');">²¹</span>

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