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לישני בתראי קא משמע לן: הכא כתיב ״כי יקח״ – ולא שיקח את עצמו. והכא כתיב ״ושלחה״ – ולא שישלח את עצמו.
last expressions are what he teaches us. The novelty of Shmuel’s statement is that with regard to the second set of pronouncements there is no concern at all that a valid betrothal or divorce might have been performed. The Talmud explains why according to Shmuel these pronouncements are not of concern. Here, in the case of betrothal, it is written: “When a man takes a woman” (Deuteronomy 24:1), which indicates that the man is acting to change the status of the woman, and it is not written that he takes himself or gives himself to her, as in the case of one who says: I am hereby your man. And likewise, it is written here, with regard to divorce: “And sends her” (Deuteronomy 24:1), and it is not written that he sends himself from her, as in the case of one who says: I am not your man.
תנו רבנן: ״הרי את אשתי״, ״הרי את ארוסתי״, ״הרי את קנויה לי״ – מקודשת. ״הרי את שלי״, ״הרי את ברשותי״, ״הרי את זקוקה לי״ – מקודשת. וליתנינהו כולהו כחדא! תנא תלת תלת, שמעינהו וגרסינהו.
A baraita states that if a man says to a woman: You are hereby my wife, or: You are hereby my betrothed, or: You are hereby acquired to me, then she is betrothed. If he said to her: You are hereby mine, or: You are hereby under my authority, or: You are hereby bound to me, then she is betrothed. The Talmud asks: But as the halakha is that she is betrothed with regard to both sets of statements, let the baraita teach all of them together. Why does the baraita divide these statements into two groups? The Talmud answers: The tanna heard them as two sets of 3, and consequently he taught them in that form. He heard each sequence of 3 cases as a separate halakha from his teachers, and therefore he preserved them as two sets of 3.