Si uno se divorcia de su esposa debido a un informe malvado [rumores de infidelidad], él no puede recuperarla; debido a un voto [que ella hizo, y él dijo: "No quiero una mujer que haga votos"], él no puede recuperarla. [Incluso si se descubrió que el informe es falso o si un sabio la absolvió del voto. (Puede que no la tome de regreso) para que ella no vaya y se case con otra y el informe de infidelidad sea encontrado falso o un sabio la absuelva del voto, para que ella no sea una "vociferante", y el esposo diga: " Si hubiera sabido esto, incluso si me hubieran dado cien manah, no me habría divorciado de ella ", anulando así el engaño y convirtiendo a sus hijos en mamzerim. Por lo tanto, se le dice: "Tenga en cuenta que si uno se divorcia de su esposa debido a un informe malvado o debido a un voto, él nunca podrá recuperarla", al escuchar eso, la divorcia categóricamente y ya no puede comprometerla. ] R. Yehudah dice: Con cada voto conocido por muchos, él no puede recuperarla; no conocido por muchos, él puede llevarla de regreso. [R. Yehudah sostiene que los rabinos dijeron: "Si uno se divorcia de su esposa debido a un informe malvado o debido a un voto, no puede recuperarla", para que las hijas de Israel no sean promiscuas con arayoth (conexiones ilícitas) o con votos. , por lo que dice que con cada voto conocido por muchos (diez o más israelitas), hay una promiscuidad relativamente mayor, y ella fue penalizada por no ser revocada. Y con lo que muchos desconocen, hay relativamente menos promiscuidad y, en consecuencia, no fue penalizada.] R. Meir dice: Con cada voto que requiera la deliberación de un sabio, él no puede recuperarla. (Con cada voto) que no requiere el sondeo de un sabio, él puede recuperarla. [R. Meir sostiene que la razón (por prohibirle que la lleve de vuelta) es la posibilidad de socavar (la obtención). Por lo tanto, con un voto de que él mismo no puede anular, pero del que solo un sabio puede absolverla, puede socavar el ataque después de que ella se vuelva a casar diciendo: "Si hubiera sabido que un sabio podría haberlo absuelto de ello, no habría tenido divorciado de ti ". Pero con un truco que no requiere el sondeo de un sabio, pero que puede ser anulado por el esposo mismo, los sabios no necesitaban prohibirle que la llevara de regreso. Porque no puede comprometerla diciendo: "Si lo hubiera sabido, etc.", porque era un voto "abierto", que podría haber anulado, y no lo hizo.] R. Eliezer dijo: Prohibieron el [es decir, devolviéndola en el caso de un voto que requiere el sondeo de un sabio] solo por el otro [que no lo requiere. Porque con uno que lo requiera, no debemos temer socavar, porque él no puede decir: "Si hubiera sabido que un sabio podría haberla absuelto de ello, no me habría divorciado de ella". Porque "somos testigos" de que incluso si él lo hubiera sabido, se habría divorciado de ella, un hombre que no quiere que su esposa sea humillada en Bet-Din ante un sabio, que vaya a su Bet-Din y le pregunte por su juramento. . Pero es debido a un voto que no requiere un sabio, que el esposo mismo podría haber anulado, que prohibieron (que él la recuperara) en todos los casos, que no dijo: "Si hubiera sabido que podría haber anulado no me hubiera divorciado de ella ".] R. Yossi b. R. Yehudah dijo; Sucedió en Tziddon que uno le dijo a su esposa: "Prometo divorciarte", y él se divorció de ella, y los sabios le permitieron llevarla de regreso, por "el bien general". [La gemara explica que falta algo y que esta es la intención: ¿Cuándo es esto (para que él no la recupere)? Cuando ella juró. Pero si él prometió divorciarse de ella, y se divorció de ella, puede llevarla de regreso, y no tememos que se debilite. Y R. Yossi b. R. Yehudah dijo: También sucedió en Tziddon que uno le dijo a su esposa: "Konam, si no me divorcio de ti". Es decir: que se me prohíban todas las frutas del mundo si no me divorcio de ti. Y se divorció de ella, y los sabios le permitieron llevarla de regreso. ("por el bien general" :) Es decir, los sabios dijeron: "Quien se divorcia de su esposa por un voto no puede recuperarla" solo por "el bien general", en el sentido de que aprehendemos el socavamiento posterior. Pero esto es posible solo donde ella promete. Sin embargo, donde él promete, no se obtiene la consideración de "el bien general", y se le permitió recuperarla. La halajá está de acuerdo con R. Yossi.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Gittin
משום שם רע – talk casting aspersion against her [on account of] unchastity
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Introduction
This mishnah deals with a man who divorces his wife either because a rumor went out that she had committed adultery or because of a vow that she took.
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משום נדר – that she took an vow and he [i.e., her husband] said: It is impossible for me [to be married] to a woman who takes vows.
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If a man divorces his wife because of ill-repute, he cannot remarry her. If a man divorces his wife because he believes that she committed adultery he may not remarry her. The fear is that after he divorces her he may find out that the rumor was false. When he discovers that the rumor was false he may regret divorcing her and say, “Had I known that the rumor was false, I would never have divorced her.” Since the divorce was based on a false assumption, the get is invalidated and any children which she had from a subsequent marriage are considered mamzerim. To prevent this problematic situation (in other words for tikkun olam), when the husband divorces they say to him that he must know that his divorce is final and irrevocable, even if the rumor for which he divorces her proves to be false. In this way, he will in his mind divorce her completely and he cannot later claim that the divorce was mistaken.
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לא יחזיר – And even if it were found that the words [against her] were false, or that the vow was released by a Sage, lest she go and marry another and it is found that the words of aspersion against her [on account of] unchastity were found to be false, and that her vow would be released by a Sage, and she would not be considered unrestrained in taking vows, and he [i.e. the husband] would say: If I had known that this was the case, even if they gave me one-hundred Maneh, I would not divorce her, and the Jewish bill of divorce would be considered void and her children would be illegitimate. Therefore, we say to him: Note that one who dismisses his wife because of an evil name or because of a vow cannot remarry [her] ever. And because of these words, he completes her divorce’ and no one is able to further disgrace her through immorality.
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If because of a vow, he cannot remarry her. The same holds true for a husband who divorces his wife because she took a vow that disrupted their marriage in some way. In such a case he may later discover that he could have had the vow released and then regret divorcing her, thereby annulling the get. To prevent this he is told that if he divorces her because of a vow, he can never remarry her.
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רבי יהודה אומר: כל נדר שידעו בו רבים לא יחזיר – Rabbi Yehuda thinks that the reason that what the Rabbis said – that a person who dismisses {i.e, divorce) his wife because of a bad name or because of a vow, should not remarry her in order that Jewish women should not be loose in moral conduct or in vows (Gittin 46a), and because of this, it is stated that a vow that the public knew about – ten or more Israelites [involved], there is greater licentiousness, and they fine her and he cannot remarry her. But, if the public did not know about it, there is no licentiousness at all and they do not fine her.
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Rabbi Judah says: [if he divorces her] for vows which she made in front of many people, he may not remarry her, but if for vows which she did not make in front of many people, he may remarry her. The following sages argue over which types of vows the previous section was referring to. According to Rabbi Judah, if the vow was public he cannot remarry her, but if the vow was not public he may remarry her. The Talmud explains that Rabbi Judah believes that the rule husbands may not remarry their wives if they divorced them because of a rumor of adultery or because of a vow is a punishment for the wife. Therefore, if she vows privately such that others don’t know that she took a vow, then she is not punished and her husband may remarry her.
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לא יחזיר – since Rabbi Meir thinks that the reason is because of moral corruption. Therefore, a vow which cannot be annulled but that a Sage can release it, he [i.e., the husband] can corrupt the Jewish bill of divorce after she has married another [man] and say: If had known that a Sage can release it [the vow, I would not have divorced her.
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Rabbi Meir says: [if he divorces her] for a vow which requires the investigation of a sage, he may not remarry her, but if for one which does not require the investigation of a sage, he may remarry her. Rabbi Eliezer says: they only forbid that one because of that one . Rabbi Meir makes a different distinction. According to Rabbi Meir he cannot remarry her if the vow required the investigation of a sage in order to release the vow. If it did not require even the investigation of the sage for the vow to be released then it must have been a mistaken vow. Such a vow can obviously be released and everyone should know this. Therefore, he cannot later claim, “Had I known that the vow could be released I would not have divorced her.” Since he cannot make this claim, we do not need to prevent him from remarrying her. Rabbi Elazar reasons completely opposite. The reason that they made it forbidden for him to remarry her for a vow that does require the investigation of a sage is because he may regret divorcing her for making a vow that does not require the investigation of a sage.
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ושאינו צריך חקירת חכם – but rather he can annul it [the vow] and there would be no need for the Sages to prohibit him from remarrying her, because he is not able to damage her and say, “If I had known etc.,” for it is an open vow and he can either annul it or not annul it.
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Rabbi Yose son of Rabbi Judah said: a case happened in Sidon of a man who said to his wife, “Konam, if I do not divorce you”, and he did divorce her, and the Sages permitted him to remarry her because of tikkun olam. The final section deals with a case where a husband vowed to divorce his wife. In this case, we might have thought that in order to encourage men not to hastily vow to divorce their wives the law would have been that if he does so he cannot remarry her. However, the Sages ruled that he can nevertheless remarry her. The only reason that in other cases they prohibited him from remarrying her was lest he state “Had I known that the vow could be broken I would not have divorced her.” This prohibition was made because of tikkun olam protecting the wife from a husband who makes such a statement. However, if the husband vows there is no reason to prevent him from remarrying her.
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לא אסרו זה – that requires the study of a Sage [to find the means of absolving the vow to permit him] to remarry [her].
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אלא מפני זה – that it is not necessary, for had it been necessary, we would not have to worry about disgracing her by immorality, since he would not be able to say: Had I known that a Sage can release it [i.e., the vow] , I would not have divorced [her], for we testify that even though this is the case, he would divorce her, and a man does not want to have his wife despised/humbled in the Jewish court in front of a Sage where she would go to the court and make petition about her vow, but because a vow that does not require a Sage [to release her] and the husband can annul it, they forbade all of them so that he would not say: “If I had known that I could annul it, it would not have divorced her.”
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א"ר יוסי ברבי יהודה כו' In the Gemara it explains that the Mishnah is deficient (i.e., missing something) and it should be taught as follows: What are we speaking about: When she made the vow, but if he made the vow that he would divorce her and he divorced her, he may remarry her and we don’t worry about her degeneracy.
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ואמר ר' יוסי ברבי יהודה: מעשה נמי בצידן באחד שאמר לאשתו קונם אם איני מגרשך – that is to say, that all the fruit that is in the world will be forbidden to me if I do not divorce you, and he divorced her, but the Sages ruled leniently to him that he may remarry her.
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מפני תקון העולם – that is to say, that the Sages did not say that a man who divorces his wife because of a vow should not remarry her other than because of the sake of the social order for we fear for moral degeneracy, but that does not belong other than on account of a vow she took , but if he took a vow, and there is nothing here [concerning] the sake of the social order, they permitted him to remarry her. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda.
