(Mishnah): If a woman says 'I was married and divorced', she is believed. The one who forbids is believed to permit;

If there are witnesses that she was married, and she says that she was divorced, she is not believed.

(Gemara - Beraisa): If after she remarried the witnesses came, she does not leave.

(R. Chunah and R. Chaninah): This is not only if she remarried [before the witnesses came], rather, even if Beis Din permitted her to remarry [and witnesses came, she does not 'leave' (lose) her Heter to remarry].

This is like the woman who came in front of R. Yochanan. She told him 'I was married and divorced', and he permitted her. After she left, [people] told him 'Rebbi - her witnesses (who know that she was married) are in Lud!'

R. Yochanan: So I say - even if her witnesses are in Kasosnun (very far away) must she wait [for them to come?!'

(R. Yosi bar Bun): There were two cases - in one of them, they told him 'her witnesses are in Lud!' in one of them, they told him 'her witnesses are in Kisarin', and so he told them, so I say - even if her witnesses are in Kasosnun, must she wait?!' (SEFER NIR - above, it connotes that if the witnesses would come, R. Yochanan would retract his Heter! R. Yosi bar Bun explains unlike this. In the case when witnesses were in Lud, R. Yochanan had already permitted her. He did not comment at all about the witnesses, for even if they came, they have no effect. When witnesses were in Kisarin, R. Yochanan had not yet permitted her. He said, even if her witnesses are in Kasosnun, must she wait?! She need not wait; we permit her immediately.)

Question (R. Yudan): If a woman said 'I was married, and I was divorced in the place Ploni [on day Ploni]', and witnesses came and said 'no woman was divorced in Ploni [on that day]', do they contradict her? (Or, do we say that perhaps she was divorced covertly?)

Question (R. Yosi): If she said 'I was married, and I was divorced in the place Ploni [on day Ploni]', and witnesses came and said 'no woman was divorced in Ploni [on that day]', and two [others] came and said 'no woman was divorced in Ploni [on that day]', is this a contradiction of testimony? (Or, do we say that she was divorced covertly; the latter do not contradict the former.)

Answer: This is a contradiction of testimony. (It is as if there are no witnesses.) We rely on her words. (Since we know that she was married only through her, she is believed. (This answers also the first question. If witnesses say that no one was divorced that day, they contradict her. We explained this like PNEI MOSHE.)

Question: If today she said 'I am married', and tomorrow she said 'I am divorced [from a long time ago]', we say to her, yesterday you said so, and today you say so?! She said, [yesterday I said so] due to a group of lewd men who came and wanted to marry me, [what is the law]?

Note: She is not believed due to a Migo that she could say 'I was divorced in between', for we would demand to see the Get or ask who the witnesses were. She is not believed to say that she lost it and forgot who the witnesses are in such a short time. (PF)

Answer (R. Avin citing R. Ila): Since she gave an excuse for her words, she is believed.

Support: This is like the case of Shmuel. He wanted to be intimate with his wife, and she said 'I am Nidah.' The next day, she told him 'I am Tehorah';

Shmuel: Yesterday you said 'I am Nidah', and today you are Tehorah?! (You must wait seven days to become Tehorah!)

His wife: I did not have the strength [to have relations] at that time. It was a false excuse to say that I am Nidah.]

He went and asked Rav. Rav said, since she gave an excuse for her words, she is believed.