Q&A: Bill of Divorce
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Bill of Divorce
Question
Good evening. In the fourth lesson on agency, the Rabbi said that if the bill of divorce is lost, rewriting it does not help; rather, the agent must be appointed again. Would it help if the agent asked the scribe to write two identical bills of divorce, so that if one is lost the second would remain for delivery, since both were written under the same agency? Thank you, and may it be a blessed year.
Answer
It seems to me that it would. Agency made conditional, or by retroactive clarification. See Gittin 25, the entire discussion there.