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לאפוקי מדבעא מיניה רבא מרב נחמן – דאמר: ״היום אי את אשתי ולמחר את אשתי״.
was instituted to the exclusion of that which Rava asked Rav Naḥman, with regard to a case where the husband said to his wife while handing her the bill of divorce: Today you are not my wife and tomorrow you are my wife. Does this limitation take effect? Although the conclusion of that inquiry was that once the wife is divorced she is divorced forever, Rava instituted the addition of this expression in the text of the bill of divorce to remove any uncertainty with regard to such a case.
גופו של גט שחרור: ״הרי את (בת) [בן] חורין״; ״הרי את לעצמך״: אתקין רב יהודה בשטר זביני דעבדי: ״עבדא דנן מוצדק לעבדו; ופטיר ועטיר מן חרורי, ומן עלולי, ומן ערורי מלכא ומלכתא; ורשום דאיניש לא אית עלוהי, ומנוקה מכל מום, ומן שחין דנפיק עד טצהר חדת ועתיק״.
§ It is stated in the Mishnah: The basic element of a bill of manumission for a female slave is: You are hereby a free woman, or: You are hereby your own. Rav Yehuda instituted the following formulation in a document of sale for slaves: This slave is justified, i.e., fit for slavery, and he is dismissed and removed from manumission and from accusations and from contests of the king and queen, meaning that he was not sentenced to death by the governmental court. And there is not a sign [reshum] of ownership of another person on him. And he is clean of any blemish and of boils that emerge on him for 4 [tatzhar] years, whether new or old.
מאי אסותיה? אמר אביי: גינברא, ומרתכא, וכבריתא, וחלא דחמרא, ומשחא דזיתא, ונטפיק חיורא; ושייפי ליה בגדפא דאווזא.
The Talmud asks tangentially: What is the cure for boils? Abaye said: One takes ginger [ginebara], and slag from silver, and sulfur [kavrita], and wine vinegar, and olive oil, and white naphtha [natpik], and spreads it with a goose feather.
מתני׳ שלשה גיטין פסולין, ואם נשאת הוולד כשר –
Mishnah: 3 bills of divorce are invalid ab initio, but if the woman marries another man on the basis of one of these bills of divorce the lineage of the offspring from this marriage is unflawed. In other words, she is not considered to be a married woman who had sex with another man, which would impair the lineage of their child.