Commentary for Kiddushin 9:8

ולרבי יוסי הגלילי דאפיק ליה להאי קרא לדרשא אחרינא שאינה מתגרשת בכסף מנא ליה אמר קרא (דברים כד, א) ספר כריתות ספר כורתה ואין דבר אחר כורתה

Now, how do the Rabbis employ this word 'divorcement'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'cutting off.');">¹⁵</span> - They employ it [to shew] that it must be an instrument which [completely] sunders them from each other. Even as it was taught: [If the husband says,] 'Behold, here is your divorce, on condition that you drink no wine or do not visit your father's house for ever,' that is no 'divorcement':<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since she remains bound in a particular respect to her husband all her life.');">¹⁶</span>

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