Reference for Bava Batra 268:5

א"ר יוסף מריה דאברהם תלי תניא בדלא תניא

— Because a husband who said, 'I divorced my wife', is believed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If his statement, then, were not true, and motivated only by a desire to liberate his wife from the levirate marriage, or halizah, he could have stated that he divorced her, and would thus have achieved the Same object. ');">⁹</span> 'God of Abraham', exclaimed R. Joseph.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Joseph, as a result of serious illness, forgot his studies and many of his own statements (v. Ned. 41a). He was here wondering how he could possibly have made such a statement in the name of his masters. ');">¹⁰</span>

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