Gittin

Let the Talmudic tract 'Gittin' be looked upon, where they are treating of the manner of delivering a bill of divorce to a wife to be put away: among other things, it might be given privately, if the husband so pleased, either into the woman's hand or bosom, two witnesses only present.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

But neither, alas, could be ever seen by me, for it is written in the "Gittin" that there are three hundred species of male demons, but what the female herself is like is known to no one.

The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

"'Pantaloons! pantaloons!!' says I; 'who larnt you to call' um pantaloons? 'says I.' Gittin 'above yer master?

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

The conclusion of the talmudic tale Gittin 45a is where my interest lies.

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: The Morality Of Redeeming Captives: Gilad Shalit And The Talmud Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011

The conclusion of the talmudic tale Gittin 45a is where my interest lies.

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: The Morality Of Redeeming Captives: Gilad Shalit And The Talmud Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011

The words she uses to describe the transaction are “a bill of divorce and release,” just as in the mishnaic text (Mishnah Gittin 9: 3).

Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Women. 2009

Another method to determine legal status, discussed in BT Gittin 65a, 59a (Sefer ha-Bagrut 6: lines 17 – 29), has to do with the ability to make distinctions.

Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Rabbinic literature, however, leaves one in no doubt that divorce was a unilateral action, reserved to the husband alone (Mishnah Gittin 9: 3).

Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Women. 2009

Similarly, if a minor between the ages of six and ten who has no guardian understands buying and selling values, his/her sales and purchases of movable objects and the gifts (large and small, on the deathbed or otherwise) are valid (BT Gittin 59a; Rambam, Mekhira 29: 8 – 10; Sefer ha-Bagrut 5: lines 70 – 87).

Legal-Religious Status of the Female According to Age. leBeit Yoreh 2009

And since they accepted the unilateral nature of rabbinic divorce, they limited considerably the grounds on which a husband could sue for divorce (Mishnah Gittin 9: 10).

Post-Biblical and Rabbinic Women. 2009