Jerusalem Talmud Gittin 4.8

משנה: הַמּוֹצִיא אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ מִשּׁוּם אַיְילוֹנִית רִבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר לֹא יַחֲזִיר וַחֲכָמִים אוֹמרִים יַחֲזִיר. נִישֵּׂאת לְאַחֵר וְהָיוּ לָהּ בָנִים מִמֶּנּוּ וְהִיא תוֹבַעַת כְּתוּבָּתָהּ. אָמַר רִבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר לָהּ שְׁתִיקוּתֵיךְ יָפָה מִדִּיבּוּרֵיךְ.

MISHNAH: If somebody divorces his wife because she is a she-ram, Rebbi Jehudah says, he cannot take her back, but the Sages say, he may take her back. If she was married to another man, had children by him, and requests her ketubah, Rebbi Jehudah says, he tells her: Your silence would be better than your talking.

הלכה: הַמּוֹצִיא אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ מִשּׁוּם אַיְילוֹנִית כול׳. תַּנֵּי. מִפְּנֵי מַה אָמְרוּ. הַמּוֹצִיא אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ מִשּׁוּם אַיְילוֹנִית לֹא יַחֲזִיר. שֶׁהֲרֵי הַמּוֹצִיא אֶת אִשְׁתּוֹ מִשּׁוּם אַיְילוֹנִית וְהָלְכָה וְנִישֵּׂאת לְאַחֵר וְיָלְדָה מִמֶּנּוּ בָּנִים. וְאָמַר. אִילּוּ הָיִיתִי יוֹדֵעַ שֶׁאִשְׁתִּי יוֹלֶדֶת אִילּוּ הָיָה אָדָם נוֹתֵן לִי בְאִשְׁתִּי מֵאָה מְנָה לֹא הָיִיתִי מְגָרְשָׁהּ. וְנִמְצָא גֵּט בָּטֵל וְהַוְולָד מַמְזֵר. וּמִתּוֹךְ שֶׁהוּא יוֹדֵעַ שֶׁאִם הוּא מְגָרְשָׁהּ וְהִיא אֲסוּרָה לַחֲזוֹר לוֹ אַף הוּא נוֹתֵן לָהּ גֵּט שָׁלֵם מִשָּׁעָה רִאשׁוֹנָה. אָמַר רִבִּי זְעִירָה. תֵּדַע לָךְ שֶׁעִילָּה הָיָה רוֹצֶה לְגֵרְשָׁהּ. שֶׁהֲרֵי כַּמָּה נָשִׁים נְשׂוּאִין אַיְילוֹנִיּוֹת וְעַל יְדֵי שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהֶן נַחַת רוּחַ מֵהֶן מְקַיְימִין אוֹתָן.

HALAKHAH: It was stated: “Why did they say that he who divorces his wife as a she-ram cannot take her back? For if he divorced his wife as a she-ram, when she went, married another man, and bore him children, and he said, if I had known that she can have children, even if somebody had offered me a hundred minas for my wife I would not have divorced her, then the bill of divorce would be invalidated and her child a bastard. But since he knows that if he divorces her, she will be forbidden to return to him, from the start he gives her a perfect bill of divorce.” Rebbi Ze‘ira said, you can see that he was looking for a pretext to divorce her since there are women she-rams who are married and since [their husbands] are satisfied with them they keep them.

רִבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר לֹא יַחֲזִיר. וְאַתְּ אָמַר כֵּן. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן. לֵית כָָּאן רִבִּי יְהוּדָה אֶלָּא רִבִּי מֵאִיר. וְתַנֵּי כֵן מִשּׁוּם רִבִּי מֵאִיר. אוֹמֵר לָהּ. שְׁתִיקוּתֵיךְ יָפָה מִדִּיבּוּרֵיךְ.

“Rebbi Jehudah says, he cannot take her back,” and you say so? Rebbi Joḥanan said, there is no Rebbi Jehudah but Rebbi Meїr. It was stated thus in Rebbi Meїr’s name: Your silence would be better than your talking.