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Ibn Ezra writes that â gerâ is an expression of disconnection. Advertisement Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (to Genesis 12:14 and 23:4) notes that the root gimmel-reish yields words with four distinct meanings: â ger,â â gurâ (fear), and â megurahâ (storage container). The core meaning of all four, he writes, is detachment from oneâs roots: A ger has detached himself from his place of origin; a gur is a newly-weaned lion cub detached from its mother which must now fend for itself; gur is fear, as if the very ground on which you were standing was yanked out from underneath you; and â megurahâ (or â megirah,â closet/drawer in Modern Hebrew) is a silo used for storing harvested grain, i.e., grain that was detached from the ground. ....
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 ....