גיטין ג׳:ב׳ - ג׳:ג׳

הכותב טופסי גיטין – A scribe who wants that they should be ready at hand with him, for there are times when a person comes to hire him [to write a Jewish bill of divorce] and he is preoccupied with other documents.

צריך שיניח מקום האיש ומקום האשה ומקים הזמן – And in the Gemara, it adds even a place for [the phrase] “you are permitted to any man.”

מפני התקנה – They permitted him to write blank forms of Jewish divorce bills and other documents not for their sake, because of the scribal ordinance that they be ready at hand with him, as long as he leaves space for the part of the document that makes it binding to write it for its own sake. And we decree that the part of the document that makes it valid for writing other documents because of the part of the document that makes bills of Jewish divorce valid.

רבי יהודה פוסל בכולן – For he decreed the blank forms of other documents on account of the parts of the document that make them binding, and other documents on account of Jewish bills of divorce.

ר"א מכשיר בכולן – for he did not decree other documents on account of bills of Jewish divorce.

חוץ מגטי נשים שנאמר "וכתב לה" – לשמה – And they decree that the blank forms of the document (for a Jewish bill of divorce) on account of the parts of the document that make them binding. But, the Halakha is according to Rabbi Eliezer [which are not permitted – as they must be written explicitly for the sake of the divorce and for that particular couple].

לאלתר – immediately, it is valid.

ואם לאו פסול – And especially if it [the Jewish bill of divorce] was lost in a place where [regular] caravans are found, and one could say that it [the Jewish bill of divorce] fell from those who come and go. But if it was lost in a place where caravans are not [regularly] found, even after a lengthy period of time, it is valid. And even if it was lost in a place where the caravans are [regularly] found, if there [is known] to the witnesses a distinguished mark of identification, such as if they [i.e., the witnesses] say that it [i.e, the Jewish bill of divorce document] has a perforation on the side of a certain letter, or they say, that we never signed the Jewish bill of divorce with these names but rather on this one alone, it is valid, even after a lengthy period of time.

בחפיסא או בדלוסקמא – sacks in which documents are regularly placed therein and they contain a particular sign that they belong to him.

אם מכירו כשר – this is a matter for itself, and this is how it should be read: If they found it in a small leather bag or in a case, even though he does not recognize it as a Jewish bill of divorce, or that he recognizes as a Jewish bill of divorce, even though he found it in any place, it is valid.

נותנו לה בחזקת שהוא קיים – And we don’t fear lest the husband died and his agency is voided, for we say, that a matter stands on its presumption. But if it is known that the husband died prior to the Jewish bill of divorce reaching her hand, the Jewish bill of divorce is voided, for there is no Jewish bill of divorce after death.

מקריבין אותה – and we don’t fear lest its owner(s) died, and the sin offering of those whose owners died, are considered as if their death is established.