Shulchan Arukh Even HaEzer · Siman 132

Shulchan Arukh Even HaEzer 132 — English translation

Translation: Sefaria Community Translation. Section numbers match the Hebrew text above.

1. 1Says to a scribe: write a divorce document for my fiancé for after the marriage is consummated then i will divorce her and give her a divorce document since we are getting a divorce and this is binding. The document has the time written when it will be given, but if it has the time of when it was written then its not binding (and the divorce is not okay).
2. 2Command to write a divorce document to divorce his wife with no intent to consummate it then there is no divorce document. If a he does yibum and then after yibum he divorces her then she has the status of a divorcee.
3. 32 whose names are the same and whose wives are the same. They make 2 divorce documents and they interfere with each other, giving to the other of them with a witness handing it over. If one of them is lost you don't give the divorce document and there is no divorce for any of them. If one gives his wife or both of them then the divorce is good for them.
4. 4A divorce document is brought and dropped in a place with caravans and it is found. Or even a place without caravans and its found in a city that the divorce document is written then it is to be set aside until 2 people with the names the same as the ones on the document come. If they find it now and nobody had come by it since the time it was lost until the time it was found, or even if they don't find it now and there is a clear sign or a stamp is visible on the divorce document, or even if there is no sign to stamp visible rather its found in a vessel that the document was in and there are signs and stamps on the vessel and you know you didn't lend that vessel to another, or if its found in a connected to pocket or wallet to ring that holds feels and there is nobody you lent it to, or its found in a house with other vessels, FOR ALL OF THESE CASES ITS FINE (the document is usable and the marriage is fine). We are not dealing in a case with any of these. Rather if nobody knows if a man was near the document and there are no signs or stamps or signs visible and on a vessel there is a sign but not on the document, we are dealing with a case where they (the couple) didn't get the document because it was lost, even if witnesses testifies that after it's stored in its place it wasn't in the city it was addressed to. Then if they see a man pass there, even of if it isn't a frequented caravan and its not stored by two yosef ben shimons (people with the same name). We are dealing with even if a gentile passed, rather if so a witness of the document says "forever there is no seal on another document with this mans name." Even there are no witness that comment that its in sealed in a designated place, for example the document is currently in his presence, these are all good cases.

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