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Rabbi Evyatar in Israel sent a message to Rav Ḥisda in Babylon, telling him that giṭṭin sent “from Bavel to Israel” do not require the messenger to attest that the geṭ was written and signed in his presence. The Gemara’s first suggestion in explaining this ruling is that Rabbi Evyatar must agree with Rabbah (see daf 3) and believe that the potential problem is that the court where the geṭ was written may not know how to write the geṭ properly.
Rabbi Evyasar once met Eliyahu and asked him: “What is the Holy One, Blessed be He, doing?” Eliyahu answered, “He is discussing the concubine of Giveah.” Rabbi Evyasar asked him, “What is He saying?” Eliyahu replied, “He is saying, ‘My son Evyasar says like so, and my son Yonasan says like so.’” Rabbi Evyasar asked: Can there possibly, Heaven forbid, be uncertainty in Heaven?” Eliyahu replied: Both opinions are the words of the living God.
We explore halachic pluralism using this aphorism as a trope.