Commentary for Yevamot 103:16

אמר רמי בר חמא הרי אמרו אמר אחד ללבלר כתוב גט לארוסתי לכשאכנסנה אגרשנה הרי זה גט מפני שבידו לגרשה

here, however, [the qualified divorce] does cause the woman to become unfit for a priest,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A priest causes his wife to be forbidden to him even if the divorce he gave her was only a qualified one. ');">⁴³</span> for it was taught, Neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXI, 7. ');">⁴⁴</span> even if she was only divorced from her husband<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if she was given a qualified divorce which does not set her free to marry any other man. ');">⁴⁵</span> they may not take her,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since such a divorce has the validity of causing the woman's prohibition to her husband who is a priest it might easily be mistaken for a valid divorce. Hence the provision mentioned. ');">⁴⁶</span> and that is what was meant by the 'scent of the divorce' that causes a woman's unfitness for a priest.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Git. 82b, infra 94a. ');">⁴⁷</span> Rami b. Hama said: It has been definitely<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'behold'. ');">⁴⁸</span> stated that if a man said to a scribe, 'Write a letter of divorce for my betrothed so that when I have married her I may divorce her' the letter of divorce is valid,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he gave it to her after marriage. ');">⁴⁹</span> because it was in his power<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At the time the letter of divorce was written. ');">⁵⁰</span> to divorce her;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As his betrothed. ');">⁵¹</span>

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