Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Metzia 110:7

מתיב רב ששת מחללין אותו כסף על כסף נחושת על נחושת כסף על נחושת ונחושת על הפירות ויחזור ויפדה את הפירות דברי רבי מאיר וחכ"א יעלו פירות ויאכלו בירושלים

<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. Raba said: The <i>terumah</i> of the tithe of <i>demai</i> presented a difficulty to R. Eleazar: Did then the Sages set up protective measures for their enactments as for those of the Torah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By ruling that one who eats the terumah of the tithe of demai must make restitution and add a fifth, though the law of demai is altogether only Rabbinical. ');">¹¹</span> — Said R. Nahman in Samuel's name: The author of this [Mishnah] is R. Meir, who maintained: The Sages did set up protective measures for their enactments as for those of the Torah. For it has been taught: If one brought a divorce from countries overseas and delivered it to her [the wife] without declaring, 'It was written in my presence and signed in my presence,' he [her next husband] must divorce her [too], and their offspring is a bastard: this is R. Meir's view. But the Sages Say: Their offspring is not a bastard. What then shall he [the messenger] do? He must take it [the divorce] back from her, give it to her again in the presence of two witnesses and declare, 'It was written in my presence and signed in presence.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It was a Rabbinic law that when a divorce was brought from overseas the messenger had to make this declaration, though by Biblical law this is unnecessary. We see from the above that in R. Meir's opinion the Sages enacted their laws with such stringency that if this formality was omitted the divorcee's subsequent marriage is null, even to the extent that the offspring is a bastard, as the child of a married woman who conceived in adultery. ');">¹²</span>

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