(Mishnah): Anyone can write a Get, even a deaf person, lunatic or minor.

A woman can write her own Get. A husband can write the receipt (in which his wife admits that she received the Kesuvah), since Kiyum of a document is only through its signatures.

Anyone may be a Shali'ach to bring (i.e. give) a Get, except for a deaf person, lunatic, minor, a blind person, or a Nochri.

(Gemara - Rav Huna): [A deaf person, lunatic or minor can write] only if a Pike'ach (adult with Da'as) oversees him.

Question (R. Yochanan): "V'Chasav Lah" - [it must be written] Lishmah! (People without Da'as cannot intend Lishmah!)

Answer (Shmuel): [A Pike'ach writes the parts that must be Lishmah. The deaf person, lunatic or minor] must leave over the Toref of the Get ('you are permitted to every man') with it (with the names; all agree that the names must be Lishmah.)

Note: Mishnah 3:2 says that one who writes a Tofes must leave blank the names and date; Reish Lakish said [that he must leave blank] the Toref Imo, i.e. with the names and date. Also here 'Imo' means like this.

This is like Reish Lakish, who says that if one wrote the Toref in the Tofes (i.e. Lo Lishmah), it is Pasul. (R. Yochanan holds that Stam, the Toref is Lishmah; he would hold that it suffices for a Pike'ach to write the names. We explained this based on MEICHAL HA'MAYIM and NO'AM YERUSHALMI below, 3:2.)

(Mishnah): If a minor was appointed (to be a Shali'ach), and became an adult (and then gave it), or if a deaf, blind or insane person was appointed, and he became healthy, or if a Nochri was appointed and he converted, the Get is Pasul.

However, if a healthy adult was appointed, and he became deaf, blind or insane, and he became healthy again (and then gave it), the Get is valid.

The rule is, whenever the Shali'ach had Da'as when appointed and when he gave it, it is valid.

(Gemara): A case came in front of R. Imi of a slave who brought the Get; he was Machshir.

Objection (R. Aba): R. Chiyah taught that if a slave brought the Get, it is Pasul!

Retraction (R. Asi): If not for R. Ba, we would have [mistakenly] permitted an Eshes Ish!

Note: The case was brought in front of R. Imi! It seems that also Rav Asi was there; Rav Asi was not mentioned, for he was like a Talmid Chaver of R. Imi (TOSFOS HA'ROSH Bava Metzi'a Sof 24b; in the Bavli, he is called R. Ami).

Question: Even if you will say that [R. Ami and] R. Asi did not hear R. Chiyah's teaching, did not they not hear the [following] words of Rabanan?! (They were Talmidim Muvhakim of R. Yochanan, so they should have heard what others said in his name!)

(R. Ze'ira citing R. Chiyah citing R. Yochanan): It seems that a slave can receive a Get Shichrur, but he does not receive a Get Ishah.

Answer: They held that [R. Yochanan] said only that he should not receive it, but if he transgressed and received it, it is Kosher.

(R. Yakov bar Acha citing R. Hoshayah): A case occurred, and she was a Kohen's wife. [Chachamim] were not concerned for the scent [of a Get, which] disqualifies [to Kehunah].

(Mishnah): Even the women who are not believed to say that a woman's husband died, they are believed to bring her Get - her mother-in-law; the daughter of her mother-in-law; her co-wife; her husband's brother's wife; and her husband's daughter (from another woman. They are suspected to hate her; perhaps they lie about his death, hoping that she will remarry and become Asur to her husband and suffer additional severe fines.)

Question: What is the difference between a Get and death? Why are they believed only about a Get?]

Answer: The writing (the signed Get that she holds) proves [that her husband sent her to divorce her].

A woman can bring her own Get, as long as she says b'Fanai Nechtav uv'Fanai Nechtam.

(Gemara) Question: (Does the writing prove by itself?) Do we not rely on her words?! If she [brought it from Chutz la'Aretz, and] did not say b'Fanai Nechtav uv'Fanai Nechtam, do you permit her to remarry?!

Answer (R. Yosi bei R. Bun): We answer like R. Avin said - [a husband] is not suspected [to tell Pesulim to sign the Get, and ruin his wife] bi'Ydei Shamayim. He is suspected [only] to ruin her in Beis Din;

Since he knows that if he comes and protests [that the witnesses are Pasul], his protest is Batel, he has Kosher witnesses sign it;

And here, since she knows that [Chachamim] did not make her words regarding her colleague to have any effect [if she will retract and say that she did not see it written or signed, and even if also the husband protests, he will not be heeded], she tells the truth.

Question: (Our Mishnah said that a woman can bring her own Get, as long as she says b'Fanai Nechtav uv'Fanai Nechtam.) Exert yourself [and you will find the answer]! If she spent 10 years in Romi [after she was divorced] and remarried [and comes to Eretz Yisrael, must she say the declaration]?!

Answer (R. Yochanan): Our Mishnah discusses when he told her [when he gave the Get to her] 'you will be divorced only in the place Ploni.'