Jerusalem Talmud Ketubot 2.5

משנה: הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁאָמְרָה אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ הָיִיתִי וּגְרוּשָׁה אֲנִי נֶאֱמֶנֶת שֶׁהַפֶּה שֶׁאָסַר הוּא הַפֶּה שֶׁהִתִּיר. וְאִם יֵשׁ עֵדִים שֶׁהִיא אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ וְהִיא אוֹמֶרֶת גְּרוּשָׁה אֲנִי אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת.

MISHNAH: If a woman said, I was married but I am divorced, she is to be trusted, since the mouth which forbade is the mouth which permits. But if there are witnesses that she is married and she says, I am divorced, she is not trustworthy.

הלכה: הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁאָמְרָה אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ הָיִיתִי כול׳. תַּנֵּי. אִם מִשֶּׁנִּישֵּׂאת בָּאוֹ עֵדִים הֲרֵי זוֹ לֹא תֵצֵא. רַב חוּנָא וְרִבִּי חֲנִינָה תְּרֵיהוֹן אָמְרִין. לֹא סוֹף דָּבָר מִשֶּׁנִּישֵּׂאת אֶלָּא אֲפִילוּ הִתִּירוּהָ בֵית דִּין לְהִינָּשֵׂא. כְּהָדָא. חָדָא אִיתְּתָא אֲתַת לְגַבֵּי רִבִּי יוֹחָנָן אָמְרָה לֵיהּ. אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ הָיִיתִי וּגְרוּשָׁה אֲנִי. וְהִתִּירוּהָ. מִן דְּנַפְקָת אָמְרִין לֵיהּ. רִבִּי. הֲרֵי עֵידֶיהָ בְּלוֹד. אָמַר. כָּךְ אֶנִי אוֹמֵר. אֲפִילוּ עֵדֶיהָ בִקסוסנון תַּמְתִּין. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹסֵי בַּר בּוּן. תְּרֵין עוֹבְדִין הֲווֹן. אֶחָד אָמְרִין לֵיהּ. הֲרֵי עֵדֶיהָ בְּלוֹד. וְאֶחָד אָמַר לוֹ. הֲרֵי עֵידֶיהָ בְּקַסָרִין. וְכֵן הֲוָה. אֲמַר לוֹן. כָּךְ אוֹמֵר אֲנִי. אֲפִילוּ עֵדֶיהָ בִקסוסנון תַּמְתִּין.

HALAKHAH: “If a woman said, I was married,” etc. It was stated: If the witnesses came after she remarried, she should not leave. Rav Ḥuna and Rebbi Ḥanina both say, not only after she remarried but even after the court authorized her to remarry. As the following: A woman came to Rebbi Joḥanan and said to him, I was married but I am divorced, and he permitted her. After she left, they said to him, are not her witnesses at Lod? He said, so I am saying: Should she wait even if her witnesses are at קסוסנון? Rebbi Yose bar Rebbi Abun said, there were two cases. In one case, they said to him, are not her witnesses at Lod? In the other case, they said to him, are not her witnesses at Caesarea? And so it was!He said to them, so I am saying: Should she wait even if her witnesses are at קסוסנון?

רִבִּי יוּדָן בְּעָא. אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ הָיִיתִי וְנִתְגָּרַשְׁתִּי בְּמָקוֹם פְּלוֹנִי. וּבָאוּ שְׁנַיִם וְאָמְרוּ. לֹא נִתְגָּרְשָׁה אִשָּׁה בְּמָקוֹם פְּלוֹנִי. מַכְחִישִׁין הֵן אוֹתָהּ. רִבִּי יוֹסֵי בְעָא. אָמְרָה. אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ הָיִיתִי וְנִתְגָּרַשְׁתִּי בְּמָקוֹם פְּלוֹנִי בְּאוֹתוֹ הַיּוֹם. וּבָאוּ וְאָמְרוּ. נִתְגָּרְשָׁה אִשָּׁה בְּמָקוֹם פְּלוֹנִי. וּבָאוּ שְׁנַיִם וְאָמְרוּ. לֹא נִתְגָּרְשָׁה אִשָּׁה בְּמָקוֹם פְּלוֹנִי. בְּהַכְחִישׁ עֵדוּת בְּתוֹךְ עֵדוּת אָנוּ כְּחַיִין מִפִּיהָ.

Rebbi Yudan asked: “I had been married but I was divorced at place X”; if two [witnesses] come and say, no woman was divorced at place X, do they contradict her? Rebbi Yose asked, if she said, I had been married but I was divorced at place X at a certain date,” and two came and said, a woman was divorced at that place, but two [others] came and said, no woman was divorced at that place? That is a contradiction of the essence of the testimony; we live off her mouth.

הַיּוֹם אָמְרָה. אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ הָיִיתִי. וּלְמָחָר אָמְרָה. גְּרוּשָׁה אֲנִי. אָמְרִינָן לָהּ. אֶתְמוֹל אָמְרָת אָכֵין וְיוֹם דֵּין אָכֵין. אָמְרָה לוֹן. מִפְּנֵי כַּת שֶׁלְּפְרִיצִים שֶׁהָיוּ בָאִין לְהִזְדַּוֵוג לִי. רִבִּי אָבִין בְשֵׁם רִבִּי אִילָא. מִכֵּיוָן שֶׁהֵבִיאָה מַתְלָא לִדְבָרֶיהָ נֶאֱמֶנֶת. כְּהָדָא. שְׁמוּאֵל בְּעָא אִיזְדְּקוּקֵי לְאִיתְּתֵיהּ. אָמְרָה לֵיהּ. טְמֵיאָה אֲנִי. לְמָחָר אָמְרָה לֵיהּ. טְהוֹרָה אֲנִי. אֲמַר לָהּ. אֶתְמוֹל אָמְרָת טְמֵיאָה וְיוֹמָא דֵין טְהוֹרָה. אָמְרָה לֵיהּ. לָא הֲוָוה בְחֵיילִי הַיי שַׁעֲתָא. אָתָא שָׁאַל לְרַב. אָמַר לֵיהּ. מִכֵּיוָן שֶׁהֵבִיאָה מַתְלָא לִדְבָרֶיהָ נֶאֱמֶנֶת.

One day, she said, I am married. The next day, she said, I am divorced. We asked her, yesterday you said this, today you say otherwise? She said to them, because of a group of amoral people who wanted to start up with me. Rebbi Abun in the name of Rebbi Ila: Since she provided an explanation for her words, she can be believed. A similar case: Samuel wanted to sleep with his wife, but she said to him, I am impure. The next day, she said, I am pure. He said to her, yesterday, you said impure, today pure? She said to him, I did not feel well enough at that moment. He came and asked Rav, who told him, since she provided an explanation for her words, she can be believed.