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1. Who Qualifies as a Shali'ach? 2. Man Becoming Shali'ach l'Holachah
DAF DISCUSSIONS - GITIN 62

SD asks:

Regarding who qualifies as an Agent, Gemara says "Peshita" that a man is qualified to be an agent for delivery and a woman is qualified to be an agent for acceptance. Then Gemara uses the Mishna's final case (where the husband turns around's wife's agent for kabala and makes them an agent for delivery) to prove that "kasher lekabala is kasher leholacha".

Why does the Gemara then say "Peshot Mina" from this, that a man is qualified for kabala. Shouldn't we have learned just the opposite, that a woman is acceptable for delivery; since we started with the Peshita that the woman can accept and this was a case where the wife sent someone as an agent to accept whom the husband turned around to as an agent for delivery.

Thank you.

Selim Dushey

The Kollel replies:

The Gemara explains that the reason we learn that a man is qualified for Kabalah is that we have found a precedent for this in the Torah; namely, that the father can receive the Get of his minor daughter. We do not find a similar precedent in the Torah that a woman can deliver a Get.

Kol Tuv,

Dovid Bloom