Mesorat%20hashas for Gittin 40:19

אמר רבא ומאי קושיא דילמא

also testified regarding a small village adjoining Jerusalem in which lived an old man who used to lend money to all the people of the village, and he used to write the bond and others signed it, and the case was brought before the Sages and they declared the bonds valid. Now how could they do this, seeing that there must be a 'writ of transfer'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] (Jer. XXXII, 10). which is taken to mean 'a document written by the transferor'. V. Kid. 26a. ');">¹⁷</span> Obviously the reason is that we say that he made over the bonds to them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And they returned them to him. So here we may say that even if the wife does not intend to leave the tablet in the husband's hands permanently, yet for the time being she has given it to him, and he can therefore 'give' it to her as a Get. ');">¹⁸</span> Said Raba: What is the difficulty? Perhaps

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