Gittin 88B

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אמר רב אחא בר יעקב: שמע מינה, ״מהרה״ דמרי עלמא ⁠– תמני מאה וחמשין ותרתי הוא.

Rav Aḥa bar Ya’akov said: Learn from this numerical value that soon [mehera] for God is 852 years, as it is stated in the verse in Deuteronomy: “You will soon [maher] utterly perish.” Since the Jewish people dwelled in Eretz Yisrael for almost this amount of time, it is apparently considered soon.

מתני׳ גט מעושה, בישראל ⁠– כשר, ובגוים ⁠– פסול. ובגוים ⁠– חובטין אותו ואומרים לו: ״עשה מה שישראל אומרים לך״ (וכשר).

Mishnah: With regard to a bill of divorce that the husband was compelled by the court to write and give his wife, if he was compelled by a Jewish court it is valid, but if he was compelled by non-Jews it is invalid. But with regard to non-Jews they may beat him at the request of the Jewish court and say to him: Do what the Jews are telling you, and it is a valid divorce.

גמ׳ אמר רב נחמן אמר שמואל: גט המעושה בישראל, כדין ⁠– כשר; שלא כדין ⁠– פסול, ופוסל.

Talmud: Rav Naḥman says that Shmuel says: With regard to a bill of divorce that the husband was compelled by a Jewish court to give his wife, if they did so lawfully, as the halakha obligated the husband to divorce his wife, it is valid. This is referring to cases where sex is forbidden or specific cases where the rabbis instituted that the husband is obligated to divorce his wife. If they did so unlawfully, the bill of divorce is invalid, but it is not considered entirely invalid, as it disqualifies the wife from marrying a priest after her husband’s death.

ובגוים, כדין ⁠– פסול ופוסל, שלא כדין ⁠– אפילו ריח הגט אין בו.

And in a case where the husband was compelled by non-Jews, if he was compelled lawfully, the bill of divorce is invalid, but it also disqualifies the wife from marrying a priest. But if he was compelled unlawfully it does not have even the trace of a bill of divorce, and the wife is not even disqualified from marrying a priest.

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