Commentary for Yevamot 231:11

מ"ט דקטטה רב חנינא אמר משום דמשקרא רב שימי בר אשי אמר משום דאמרה בדדמי מאי בינייהו

say this?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When they are angry. They do not mean it seriously. Why, then, should a woman, because of a momentary outburst, be suspected of inventing a tale about her husband's death? ');">²⁸</span> Rather [this is the meaning]: When she says to her husband. 'You have divorced me!' Then let her be believed on the strength of R. Hamnuna's ruling; for R. Hamnuna ruled: If a woman said to her husband, 'You have divorced me'. she is believed, for it is an established principle that no woman would dare [to make such a false assertion] in the presence of her husband! — [Here it is a case] where she said. 'You have divorced me in the presence Of So-and-so and So-and-so', who. when asked, stated that this had never happened.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] (abr. [H]), lit.. 'the things never were'. ');">²⁹</span> What is the reason in case Of DISCORD?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why is not a wife in such a case believed if she states that her husband is dead? ');">³⁰</span> — R Hanina explained: Because she is likely to tell a lie.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Out of hatred she might deliberately invent the tale that her husband was dead so that by marrying again she might become forbidden to him forever. ');">³¹</span> R. Shimi b. Ashi explained: Because she speaks from conjecture.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though she might not deliberately tell an untruth, her hatred would prevent her from finding out what exactly happened to her husband if ever he was placed in a position of danger. The likelihood of his death would be regarded by ber as a certainty. ');">³²</span> What is the practical difference between them?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Hanina and R. Shimi. Is not her word mistrusted in either case? ');">³³</span>

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