Gittin 2A

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המביא גט ממדינת הים, צריך שיאמר בפני נכתב ובפני נחתם.

Mishnah: An agent who brings a bill of divorce [get] from a husband to his wife from a country overseas, i.e., from outside of Eretz Yisrael to Eretz Yisrael, is required to state the following formula when he hands over the bill of divorce: This bill of divorce was written in my presence and it was signed in my presence.

רבן גמליאל אומר: אף המביא מן הרקם ומן החגר. רבי אליעזר אומר: אפילו מכפר לודים ללוד.

Rabban Gamliel says: Even one who brings a bill of divorce from Rekem or from Ḥeger, which are on the periphery of Eretz Yisrael, must make this declaration. R' Eliezer says: Even one who brings a bill of divorce from the village of Ludim to Lod must also make this declaration, despite the fact that these places are only a short distance apart. The reason is that the village of Ludim was not part of the main area settled by Jews in Eretz Yisrael.

וחכמים אומרים: אינו צריך שיאמר ״בפני נכתב ובפני נחתם״, אלא המביא ממדינת הים והמוליך. והמביא ממדינה למדינה במדינת הים, צריך שיאמר ״בפני נכתב ובפני נחתם״. רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר: אפילו מהגמוניא להגמוניא.

And the Rabbis say that one is required to say: It was written in my presence and it was signed in my presence, only if he brings a bill of divorce from a country overseas to Eretz Yisrael, and the same applies to one who delivers a bill of divorce from Eretz Yisrael to a country overseas. And likewise an agent who brings a bill of divorce from one region to another region within the overseas countries is also required to say: It was written in my presence and it was signed in my presence. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: This halakha applies not only to an agent who brings a bill of divorce from one country to another, but even to one who takes it from one district [hegmonya] to another district in the same country.

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