Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 226:15

מהו דתימא מדא"ל כנסי שטר חוב זה בטולי בטליה קמ"ל אי איתא דבטליה לעדים הוה קאמר להו ומדלא אמר לעדים לא בטליה ולא מידי והאי דקאמר הכי מחמת כיסופא הוא דקאמר להו

Here also, then, her consent is not required. Is not this obvious!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to R. Johanan. What need, then, was there for Raba to state the obvious? ');">³⁵</span> — It might have been assumed that since he said to her, 'Take this bill of indebtedness'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus describing the document as one which has no relation whatsoever to divorce. ');">³⁶</span> he has thereby cancelled [the letter of divorce], hence we were taught [that it remains valid, for] had he in fact cancelled it, he would have made his statement to the witnesses. Since, however, he did not make the statement to the witnesses he did not cancel it at all; and the only reason why he made that statement to her was<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and that which he said thus, owing to'. ');">³⁷</span>

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