Responsa for Gittin 4:1
לפי שאין בקיאין לשמה
It is because [the Jews in foreign parts] are [for the most part] ignorant of the rule of 'special intention'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] Lit., 'for her name': the rule that the Get must from its inception have been intended expressly for that woman. ');"><sup>1</sup></span>
Shut min haShamayim
They responded: "They do not issue a decree on the people that the majority are unable to withstand," (Horayot 3b:6) "and one witness is credible in matters of prohibitions" (Gittin 2b:5) - as long as they are knowledgeable. And all who abstain from something when it is not appropriate to abstain, their actions are considered foolish.
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