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Daily Daf Yomi Summary here  Rabbah inquired: Can a Canaanite
slave make a messenger to accept his Get for him from his
master? Do we say that being that we derive his laws from a
woman (who can make a messenger), he too can make a messenger?
Or do we say that a woman who can accept her Get can make a
messenger, but he, who cannot accept a Get cannot make a
messenger? After Rabbah asked the question, he resolved that he
can make a messenger, based upon the above gezeirah shavah.  The
Gemora asks: Rav Huna the son of Rav Yehoshua says that Kohanim
are Hashem’s messengers. If we would say that they are our
messengers, is it possible that there is something that a person
themselves cannot do, yet they have the power to create a
messenger to do it for them? However, based on what we just
said, this logic seems flawed. After