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או לשלשה: ״כתבו גט, ותנו לאשתי״, הרי אלו יכתבו ויתנו. אמר לשלשה: ״תנו גט לאשתי״, הרי אלו יאמרו לאחרים ויכתבו, מפני שעשאן בית דין; דברי רבי מאיר.
or if a man said to 3 people: Write a bill of divorce and give it to my wife, these people should write the document themselves and give it to her. If he said to 3 people: Give a bill of divorce to my wife, these people should tell others, and those others will write the document, because he designated the 3 people as a court. This is the statement of R' Meir.
וזו הלכה העלה רבי חנינא איש אונו מבית האסורין: מקובל אני באומר לשלשה: ״תנו גט לאשתי״ – שיאמרו לאחרים ויכתבו, מפני שעשאן בית דין,
And it is that halakha that R' Ḥanina of Ono brought up from prison in the name of R' Akiva, who was incarcerated there: I received a tradition from my teachers that in a case where a man says to 3 people: Give a bill of divorce to my wife, that these people should tell others and those others will write the document, because he designated the 3 people as a court.
אמר רבי יוסי, נומינו לשליח: אף אנו מקובלין, שאפילו אמר לבית דין הגדול שבירושלים: ״תנו גט לאשתי״ – שילמדו ויכתבו ויתנו.
R' Yosei said: We said [nomeinu] to the agent, R' Ḥanina of Ono: We too received a tradition. However, it is a different one, that even if a man said to the High Court [Sanhedrin] in Jerusalem: Give a bill of divorce to my wife, that the members of the court should learn to write, and should write the document themselves, and give it to his wife.
אמר לעשרה: ״כתבו ותנו גט לאשתי״ – אחד כותב, ושנים חותמין. ״כולכם כתובו״ – אחד כותב, וכולם חותמין; לפיכך אם מת אחד מהן – הרי זה גט בטל.
If a man said to 10 people: Write and give a bill of divorce to my wife, one of the 10 writes the bill of divorce and two sign it. If he said: All of you write the document, one of them writes the bill of divorce and all of them sign it. Therefore, if one of them died, then this is a bill of divorce that is null and void, as he directed all of them to participate in the process.