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Mishnah: In an ordinary document, its witnesses are to sign inside it, i.e., on the written side of the paper. In a folded and tied document, its witnesses are to sign on the back of it.
With regard to an ordinary document whose witnesses wrote their signatures on the back of it, and a tied document whose witnesses wrote their signatures inside of it, both of these are not valid. R' Ḥanina ben Gamliel says: A tied document whose witnesses wrote their signatures inside of it is vali
An ordinary document is rendered valid by its having at least two witnesses, and a tied document is rendered valid by its having at least 3 witnesses. With regard to an ordinary document in which a single witness wrote his signature, and a tied document in which only two witnesses wrote their signat
Talmud: The Talmud asks: From where are these matters derived? What biblical basis is there for the existence of these two types of documents? R' Ḥanina says: As the verse states: “They shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses” (Jeremiah 32:44). When th