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Shavuot is upon us. On Sunday evening, Jews the world over will gather together to study Torah all night long for the hearty ones among us.
On Monday, we will read Exodus 19 and 20 the chapters that begin with God appointing Israel to be His “kingdom of priests and holy nation” and end with God beginning to set forth the laws we must follow in order to fulfill that role.
gett in colloquial terms refers specifically to a bill of divorce (see Rashi to
Gittin 65b and Maimonides’ commentary to the Mishna
Gittin 2:5), as we shall see below. In Biblical Hebrew, by the way, a bill of divorce is called a
Sefer Kritut (Deut. 24:1-3, Isa. 50:1), literally “Scroll of Cutting.”
The Tosafists (
Gittin 2a) cite Rabbeinu Tam as explaining that a bill of divorce contains twelve lines of text because it is called a
gett (GIMMEL-TET), and the
gematria (numeric value) of the word
gett equals twelve. Some authorities understand the Tosafists to also be explaining why a bill of divorce is called a
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