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Gitin 66
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1) [line 1] DARA REBBI AVINA L'SILTEI - Rebbi Avina carried his sack (of
food for the road)
2) [line 11] MATNAS SHECHIV ME'RA B'MIKTZAS HI
(a) A Shechiv Mera is a person lying on his deathbed. Normally, in order to
transfer one's possessions to someone else, a proper Kinyan must be executed
(see Background to Gitin 13:7), which will later be written in a Shtar. The
Chachamim instituted that a Shechiv Me'ra may effect a Kinyan and transfer
his property by simply requesting verbally that the transfer take place. If
he recovers, the Kinyan is not valid, because it is clear that he executed
the Kinyan only because he thought that he was going to die.
(b) However, if the Shechiv Me'ra gives as a gift only a portion of his
property ("Matanah b'Miktzas"), then the transaction does *not* take effect
until he makes a formal Kinyan. The reason is because by keeping some of his
property to himself, he shows that he expects to live and is not giving away
his property because he anticipates dying, and thus his gift has the status
as that of a healthy person and it requires a Kinyan to take effect.
3) [line 19] KEDEI L'YAPOS ES KOCHO - in order to increase his (the
recipient's) strength (such that no matter what happens, the recipient will
receive the gift)
4) [line 24] SHED - a demon
5) [line 25] IDMUYEI IDMU - make themselves similar to the form of a person
6a) [line 26] BAVU'AH - a shadow
b) [line 27] BAVU'AH D'VAVU'AH - the shadow of a shadow (i.e. an extended,
or especially dark, shadow -- see Pischei Teshuvah EH 17:49)
7) [line 28] LIMDANI YONASAN BENI, BAVU'AH IS LEHU - Yonasan Beni taught me
that the (the demons) have shadows (according to the reading of the Gemara
in Yevamos 122a, "Yonasan Beni" is instead "Yonasan Sheida," referring
either to (a) Yonasan the Demon, or (b) Yonasan, the expert on demons
8) [line 29] V'DILMA TZARAH HAVAI - but perhaps it was her co-wife (trying
to force her to become prohibited to their husband
9) [line 32] HA'BARI - a healthy man
10) [line 33] L'SACHEK BAH - to fool (taunt) her
11) [line 37] IM HOCHI'ACH SOFO AL TECHILASO - if [what occurs later, at]
the end proves what [his intention] was at the beginning
12) [line 43] MAKREI YENUKA - a teacher of young children (who teaches them
to read verses)
13) [line 46] MI MASHVU INSHEI BERA SHELICHA BI'MKOM ABA - do people make a
son a Shali'ach in the presence of the son's father?
66b---------------------------------------66b
14) [line 5] ISH ONO - a man of the town of Ono. Ono was a Jewish town three
Mil away from Lod (Lod was located in the present-day city by that name,
southeast of Tel Aviv).
15) [line 8] NUMEINU LA'SHALI'ACH - we said to the messenger
16) [line 9] BEIS DIN HA'GADOL SHEB'YRUSHALAYIM - the Beis Din of the
Lishkas ha'Gazis (the Jewish Supreme Court), known as the Great Sanhedrin of
71 judges. The Lishkas ha'Gazis (The Chamber of Hewn Stone) was partially
built in the Azarah of the Beis ha'Mikdash. The Great Sanhedrin was the
highest Halachic authority before which the most difficult cases were
brought (Devarim 17:8).
17) [line 17] TETZEI - if the woman married another man based on this Get,
she must get divorced (literally "she must leave" him) due to the doubtful
validity of the Get.
18) [line 19] U'MESAPKA LEI, MILEI, IY MIMSERAN L'SHALI'ACH - and he is in
doubt whether "Milei" can be given over to a Shali'ach
(a) It is possible to make a Shali'ach (an agent) to establish all Kinyanim
(acquisitions; the word "Kinyan" connotes a change of ownership or status,
such as sales, gifts, Gitin and Kidushin). The Gemara states, "Shelucho Shel
Adam Kemoso," i.e. [the act performed by] the Shali'ach of a person is like
[an act performed by the person] himself (Kidushin 41b).
(b) A Shali'ach can appoint another Shali'ach in his place, as long as the
person who sent him has no objections. The Gemara explains that this only
applies if the Shali'ach was given an *object* with which he was expected to
effect a Kinyan (e.g., if the Shali'ach was given a Get to deliver to the
person's wife). If the Shali'ach only received verbal instructions ("Milei")
to execute, however, his appointment is not considered authoritative enough
for the Shali'ach to appoint another Shali'ach. (See Insights.)
19) [line 24] KESAV YADAN - their handwriting (i.e. signatures)
20) [line 35] BEI DINA CHADTA - a new Beis Din
21) [line 46] NAFIK MINAH CHURVA - damage (destruction) will result from it
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