ה ואלא רבי מאיר היא וכי לא בעי רבי מאיר כתיבה לשמה מדאורייתא מדרבנן בעי והא אמר רב נחמן אומר היה רבי מאיר אפילו מצאו באשפה
5 Three kinds of Get are invalid, but if a woman marries on the strength of one of them, the child is legitimate. [One,] if the husband wrote it with his own hand but it was attested by no witnesses; [a second,] if there are witnesses to it but no date; [a third,] if it has a date but the signature of only one witness. These three kinds of Get are invalid, but if the woman remarries on the strength of one of them, the child is legitimate. R. Eleazar says that even though it was not attested by witnesses at all, so long as he gave it to her in the presence of witnesses it is valid, and on the strength of it she may recover her <i>kethubah</i> from mortgaged property, since signatures of witnesses are required to a Get only as a safeguard.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This shows that R. Eleazar does not require the Get to be signed with 'special intention'. ');"><sup>5</sup></span> Are we to say then that after all R. Meir is the authority, and that he dispenses with 'special intention' only as a requirement of the Torah but not as a requirement of the Rabbis? How can this be, in view of what we have been told by R. Nahman, that R. Meir used to rule that even if the husband found a Get ready written on a rubbish heap