Ketubot 101A

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יוצאה בגט צריכה להמתין שלשה חדשים.

One who leaves the marriage union through a bill of divorce is required to wait 3 months before remarrying.

מאי קא משמע לן? תנינא כולהו: הממאנת באיש ⁠— הוא מותר בקרובותיה, והיא מותרת בקרוביו, ולא פסלה מן הכהונה. נתן לה גט ⁠— הוא אסור בקרובותיה, והיא אסורה בקרוביו, ופסלה מן הכהונה.

The Talmud asks: What is Shmuel teaching us by telling us all of this? We already learned it all in Yevamot (108a): In the case of one who refuses to continue living with a certain man, he is permitted to her relatives and she is permitted to his relatives, and she is not disqualified from marrying into the priesthood. If he gave her a bill of divorce, then he is forbidden to her relatives and she is forbidden to his relatives, and she is disqualified from marrying into the priesthood.

צריכה להמתין שלשה חדשים איצטריכא ליה, דלא תנן.

The Talmud answers: It was necessary for him to mention that if she receives a bill of divorce, she is required to wait 3 months before remarrying, as we did not learn that halakha in the Mishnah. Once Shmuel mentioned the difference between one who refuses to continue living with her husband and one who is divorced, he mentioned the other differences between the two cases.

לימא כתנאי, רבי אליעזר אומר: אין מעשה קטנה כלום, ואין בעלה זכאי במציאתה, ולא במעשה ידיה, ולא בהפרת נדריה, ואינו יורשה, ואינו מיטמא לה. כללו של דבר: אינה כאשתו לכל דבר, אלא שצריכה מיאון.

The Talmud suggests: Let us say that this dispute between Rav and Shmuel is parallel to a dispute between tanna’im, as the baraita teaches: R' Eliezer says: The act of marriage by a minor girl is nothing, i.e., has no legal impact, when she is married off not by her father, and her husband is not entitled to any lost article that she finds, and not to her earnings; and he is not able to annul her vows; and he does not inherit from her; nor does he become impure for her if he is a priest. The principle is that her legal status is not that of his wife in every sense, only that she requires a refusal in order to leave the marriage.

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