Commentary for Yevamot 211:17

ורבא דידיה אומר אין חולצין אלא אם כן מכירין ואין ממאנין אא"כ מכירין לפיכך כותבין גט חליצה אף על פי שאין מכירין וכותבין גט מיאון אף על פי שאין מכירין ולא חיישינן לבית דין טועין:

unless the parties are known,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the writers who witnessed the ceremony. ');">⁴²</span> and no certificate of <i>mi'un</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mi'un. V. Glos. ');">⁴³</span> may be written<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For a woman who applied for such a certificate to enable her to marry again. even if the usual declaration, that the parties were known to the writers, is omitted. V. infra n. 4. ');">⁴¹</span> unless the parties are known,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the writers who witnessed the ceremony. ');">⁴²</span> for fear of an erring <i>Beth din</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a second Beth din who might be called upon to deal with the question of the remarriage of the parties and who might be unaware of the law that halizah and mi'un may be arranged even for unknown persons, and who, in their reliance on the written certificate, might permit the woman to marry again; overlooking the fact that the usual declaration that the parties were known to the writers (cf. supra note 1) was wanting from the certificate. ');">⁴⁴</span> Raba in his own name, however, stated: <i>halizah</i> must not be arranged unless the parties<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra p. 732, n. 10. ');">⁴⁵</span> are known,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the Beth din. ');">⁴⁶</span> nor may a declaration of refusal<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mi'un. V. Glos. ');">⁴³</span> be heard unless the parties<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The husband and the minor. ');">⁴⁷</span> are known.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the Beth din. ');">⁴⁶</span> For this reason<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since no Beth din would allow halizah and mi'un unless the parties are known to them. ');">⁴⁸</span> it is permissible<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For witnesses who were present during one or other, as the case may be, of such ceremonies. ');">⁴⁹</span> to write a certificate of <i>halizah</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To enable the woman to marry again. ');">⁵⁰</span> even though the parties are not known,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the writers who witnessed the ceremony. ');">⁵¹</span> and it is also permissible<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For witnesses who were present during one or other, as the case may be, of such ceremonies. ');">⁴⁹</span> to write a certificate of <i>mi'un</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra notes 3 and 10. ');">⁵²</span> even though the parties are not known,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To the writers who witnessed the ceremony. ');">⁵¹</span> and we are not afraid of an erring <i>Beth din</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra note 4 mutatis mutandis. Since the first Beth din must know the parties the question of mistaken identity does not arise. ');">⁵³</span>

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