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Mishnah: With regard to an agent who brings a bill of divorce and it was lost from him, if he finds it immediately then the bill of divorce is valid. But if not, then it is invalid, as it is possible that the bill of divorce that he found is not the same one that he lost, and this second bill of
Talmud: The Mishnah teaches that if a bill of divorce was lost before being received by the woman it is invalid unless it was found immediately. And the Talmud raises a contradiction from a Mishnah (Bava Metzia 18a): If one found bills of divorce, or bills of manumission, wills [dayetikei], deeds
Rabba said: This is not difficult. Here, in the Mishnah that rules that the bill of divorce cannot be used unless it was found immediately, it is stated with regard to a place where caravans are frequently found, and there is a concern that the found bill of divorce belongs to someone else with t
The Talmud comments: And even in a place where caravans are frequently found, there is not always a concern that the bill of divorce may belong to another man with an identical name, but this concern is only where it has been established that there are two men named, e.g., Yosef ben Shimon, in that
The Talmud continues: As, if you do not say so, that this concern is taken into account only in a place where it is known that there are two people with the same name, then there is a difficulty presented in the form of a contradiction between this statement of Rabba and another statement of Rabba.