## Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer Siman 152

###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:1
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**דין שני עדים אומרים שנתגרשה והאומרת אשת איש הייתי ונתגרשתי. ובו יב סעיפים:**
הבעל שאמר גרשתי את אשתי אינו נאמן וחוששין לדבריו ותהיה ספק מגורשת ואפי' הודית לו שגירשה אינם נאמנים:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
The that husband says, "I divorced my wife" is not believed since we are are skeptical of his words and she is thus rendered to be "questionably divorced." Even if she admits to being divorced by him, they are not believed.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:2
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האומרת לבעלה גרשתני והוא מכחישה נתבאר סי' י"ז:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
[The case of] a woman that said to her husband, "You divorced me," but he denied [her claim] will be clarified in siman 17.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:3
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שנים אומרים נתגרשה ושנים אומרים לא נתגרשה אפי' הבעל עומד והיא אומרת לו גרשתני הרי זו בחזקת אשת איש גמורה מפני שהעדים סומכים אותה ואפשר שתעיז פניה לפיכך אם נשאת תצא והולד ממזר בד"א כשאמרו עכשיו נתגרשה שהרי אומרים לה אם אמת הדבר הוציאי גיטיך אבל אם אמרו העדים מכמה ימים נתגרשה יש לומר אבד הגט והואיל והיא אומרת גרושה אני בודאי ושנים עדים מעידים לה אע"פ שהשנים מכחישין אותה אם נשאת לאחד מעדיה לא תצא שהרי היא ובעלה יודעים בודאי שהיא מותרת וחזקה היא שאין מקלקלים עצמם אבל אם נשאת לאחר הואיל והדבר אצלו ספק וכן אם אמרה איני יודעת תצא והולד ספק ממזר אבל כל היכא דליכא הכחשה אלא ב' אומרים נתגרשה עכשיו ואמרינן לה אחזינן גיטיך ואמרה נאבד או נקרע לא חיישינן לה:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
Two say, "she was divorced" and two say, "she was not divorced," even if the husband withstands and she says to him, "you divorced me," she [retains] that status of a completely married woman, since the witnesses support her and she would be brazen [to lie about divorce]. Therefore, if she [re]marries, she goes out and the child is a halakhic bastard. In what cases are we talking about? When they say, "now she was divorced," since they say to her, "if the matter is truthful, take out your get," but if the witnesses say, "for many days she was divorced," you could say the divorce writ was lost, and since she says, "I am certainly a divorcee," and two witnesses testify for her, even the [other] two [witnesses] contradict them, if she marries one of her witnesses, she does not go out, since she and her husband know certainly that she is permitted, and it's a presumption that they wouldn't ruin themselves. But if she marries someone else, since the matter is a doubt for him, and similarly if she says, "I don't know," she goes out and the child is a questionable halakhic bastard. But whenever there is no contradiction, rather two say, "she was divorced now" and we say to her, "show us your divorce writ," and she says, "it was lost or torn," we're not concerned for her.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:4
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אמרו ב' ראינוה שנתגרשה וב' אומרים לא ראינוה אפי' אם היו כלם שרוים בחצר א' הרי זו לא תנשא ואם נשאת לא תצא והולד כשר שבני אדם עשויים לגרש בצינעא: הגה וי"א דאם אמרו שהיו כולם במעמד א' ושנים אומרים לא ראינו הוי הכחשה דכולי האי לא עבדי בצנעא (תא"ו נכ"ג ח"ג):

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
Two said: "We saw that she was divorced," and two say, "We did not see her," even if all of them were in one courtyard, this [woman] should not [re]marry, and if she [re]marries, she should not go out, and the child (of the second marriage) is valid, since people tend to divorce in private. Ram"a: And some say that if they say they were all in presence of each other, and two say, "we didn't see," that's a contradiction, since that much is not done in private.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:5
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אחד אומר נתגרשה וא' אומר לא נתגרשה לא תנשא ואם נשאת אם היתה בחזקת אשת איש תצא בכל ענין ואם לא היתה בחזקת אשת איש אלא על פיהם אם יש הכחשה בעדותן כגון שא' אומר נתגרשה וא' אומר מעולם לא היו בה ספק גירושין תנשא לכתחלה ואם שניהם מעידים שהיא אשת איש אלא שזרק לה גט אחד אומר קרוב לו ואחד אומר קרוב לה אפילו אם נשאת תצא:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
One claims, "She was divorced," and one claims, "She was not divorced," she cannot remarry. If she does remarry, if she was assumed to have been married [to the first husband], she leaves [the second marriage] in any case. If she was not assumed to have been married, but it was only their word [that causes the assumption], if their testimony contradicts, such as one saying, "She was divorced," and the other saying, "She never had [even] a possibly [illegal] divorce," she can remarry [even] ideally. If both testify that she was married, but that he had thrown her a get [bill of divorce], one claiming it was closer to him [and therefore she never acquired it], and one claiming it was closer to her [and therefore she did acquire it, since this is a case of not contradictory facts but opinions], if she remarries, we require her to leave.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:6
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האשה שבאה ואמרה אשת איש הייתי וגרושה אני נאמנת שהפה שאסר הוא הפה שהתיר וי"א דוקא כשאמרה כך בתוך כדי דיבור אא"כ נתנה אמתלא לדבריה:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
A woman comes and says, "I was married, but now I'm divorced," she is believed, for the very mouth that prohibited herself is the mouth that permitted herself [we believe her when she claims she was married, so we believe her when she claims she was divorced]. Some say this is only when she says this within the normal amount of time [to say such a sentence], unless she gives a pretext to her words.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:7
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אם יש עדים שהיתה אשת איש אינה נאמנת לומר גרושה אני ואם נשאת תצא ואפי' אם נשאת קודם שבאו העדים שהעידו שהיא אשת איש אבל חוששין לדבריה ופסולה לכהונה לעולם ואם מת חולצת ולא מתייבמת: הגה באו עדים ואמרו שמענו שהיא מגורשת אין זה עדות להוציא מחזקתה עד שיעידו שהיא גרושה (ריב"ש סי' תק"ד) אבל אם אין עדים שהיא אשת איש רק אומרים שמענו שנתקדשה ונתגרשה דינו כקול בעלמא (וכדרך שנתבאר לעיל סי' מ"ו):

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
If there are witness to the fact that she was fully married, she is not believed to say "I am divorced" [because it is not by her mouth that she was made prohibited to others], and [therefore,] if she remarries, we make her leave. And even if she remarried before the witnesses come who testify to the fact that she was fully married [beforehand]. But we are mindful of her words and we do invalidate her to ever [marry] the priesthood. And if he [her new husband] dies, [his relatives] do chalutza and not yibbum. Rem"a: If witnesses come and claim, "We heard she is a divorcee," that is not a testimony that can take her out of the assumed category [of marriage], until they testify to the fact that she is a divorcee (Rivash Siman 504). But if there are no witnesses to the fact that she was fully married, but they only claim "We heard she got married and was divorced," it is considered like a regular rumor, and its way is clarified earlier Siman 46.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:8
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היו לה ב' עדים שהיא גרושה אע"פ שאין שם גט הרי זו תנשא לכתחלה:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
If she has two witnesses that she is a divorcee, even though there is no get [bill of divorce] present, she can remarry [even] ideally.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:9
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הוציאה גט מתחת ידה ואמרה גרשני בעלי בזה ה"ז נאמנת ותנשא בו אע"פ שאינו מקוים כמו שנתבאר בסימן קמ"א וקמ"ב:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
If she removes her get [bill of divorce] from her hand and says, "My husband divorced me with this," she is believed, and she can remarry even though [the divorce] was not confirmed [to have been taken place], as was explained in Siman 141 and 142.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:10
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בא הבעל וערער אם אמר ממני נפל ומצאה אותו אינו נאמן שהרי הודה שכתבו לה והרי הוא יוצא מתחת ידה אבל אם אמר הבעל על תנאי היה ועדיין לא נתקיים התנאי (או) פקדון היה או מעולם לא כתבתיו או מזוייף הוא יתקיים בחותמיו או בעידי מסירה כמו שנתבאר בסימן קמ"א וקמ"ב סעיף י"ג וי"ד:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
If the husband comes and protests: If he says, "I dropped it [by accident] and she found it [and I never meant to divorce her]," he is not believed, for he admitted to having written it for her, and it ended up in her hands. But if the husband says, "It was conditional, and the condition has still not been fulfilled," or "It was [just] something to be watched," or "I never had it written," or "It's a forgery," [the matter must be] confirmed by his signature or through witnesses to the giving [of the get], as was explained in Siman 141 and 142 (Se'if 13 and 14).


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:11
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ואם לא נתקיים אינה מגורשת להיות מותרת לאחרים אבל פסלה עצמה מכהונה:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
And if [the matter] is not confirmed, she is not divorced to be permitted to others, but she does invalidate herself from [marrying] the priesthood.


###### Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 152:12
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אשה שיש בידה מעשה ב"ד אינה יכולה לינשא בו עד שיוכרו חתימות ידי הב"ד ועיין בסוף סימן קמ"ב בהגה:

**Wikisource Shulchan Aruch:**
A woman who has in her hand the court decision, she cannot remarry until the signatures of the court are recognized. (Rem"a: See the end of Siman 142 in the gloss).