[Avodah] kiddushin and bigamy

[Zev Sero]

On 7/12/2010 12:45 PM, Simon Montagu wrote:

> I always understood that the reason that the wife doesn't get the original get was davka to prevent this kind of situation arising.

Yes, but she still has to prove that she got a get, and for that purpose
she gets a receipt which lists the names and where and when, etc.  Since
the get itself isn't around, it can't be challenged for a lot of things
that might come up, but here the problem was in the name on the receipt,
which is copied from the name on the get.

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