Responsa for Gittin 145:10
ההוא גברא דזבין ארעא לחבריה קביל עליה כל אונסא דמתיליד לסוף אפיקו בה נהרא
to say [in answer to an inquiry], If a lion consumed him, we cannot consider [it a Get].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because this is an exceptional accident which he cannot have had in his mind when he said 'if I die'. ');"><sup>9</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
Q. A, who fell sick, gave a bill of divorce to his wife on the condition that it be valid from the time of its delivery if he should die as a result of that sickness. A died as a result of that sickness and the people did not allow his wife to touch him, weep over him, or even walk after his hearse, claiming that such action on her part would invalidate her divorce.
A. The people were wrong. It is not within the province of a wife to invalidate her divorce.
SOURCES: Pr. 857; Mordecai Hagadol, p. 230c.
A. The people were wrong. It is not within the province of a wife to invalidate her divorce.
SOURCES: Pr. 857; Mordecai Hagadol, p. 230c.
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