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But R' Meir deems it pure. Likewise, one may write women’s bills of divorce on anything, even a living creature. But R' Yosei HaGelili invalidates a bill of divorce written on a living creature.
Talmud: It was taught in a baraita that R' Meir says: An animate object may neither be used as a wall for a sukka, nor as a side post for an alleyway, nor as one of the upright boards surrounding a well, nor as the covering of a grave. They said in the name of R' Yosei HaGelili: Nor may one write w
The Talmud asks: What is the reason for R' Yosei HaGelili’s opinion? As it was taught in a baraita with regard to the verse: “When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it comes to pass if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her; that he write her a scroll
The Talmud asks: And how do the Rabbis, who disagree and say that a bill of divorce may be written even on a living creature or on food, interpret the verse? They contend: Is the verse written: “Let him write for her in the scroll [basefer],” indicating the only type of surface on which the bill
The Talmud continues: And what do the Rabbis derive from the phrase “that he write her”? The Talmud answers: That phrase is required to teach the principle that a woman is divorced only by means of writing, i.e., a bill of divorce, and she is not divorced by means of money. It might have entered y