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Get or GET may refer to:
- Get (animal), the offspring of an animal
- Get (conflict), legal issues around the Jewish divorce procedure
- Get (divorce document), the Jewish divorce procedure
- Graded exercise therapy, a treatment for people with chronic fatigue syndrome (or other disease-induced fatigue)
- Guaranteed Education Tuition Program (GET Program), a savings plan available to residents of the United States state of Washington
- Institut TELECOM, previously Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications (GET)
- GET (HTTP), a type of HTTP request
- GET, a UNIX command to send requests to WWW servers
- Get AS, a Norwegian cable-TV operator and internet service provider
See also [link]
- All pages beginning with "Get"
- All pages with titles containing "Get"
- GETS (disambiguation)
- Git (disambiguation)
- Acquire (disambiguation)
- Receive (disambiguation)
- Possess (disambiguation)
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Getå
Getå is a minor locality in Norrköping Municipality, Sweden.
History
On 1 October 1918 Getå was the site of the worst train accident in Swedish railroad history, killing at least 42 people. Many passengers were burned alive as unreinforced wooden cars burned, killing many who had survived the actual crash but were trapped in the wreckage.
Coordinates: 58°40′N 16°18′E / 58.667°N 16.300°E
Get (divorce document)
A get (/ɡɛt/; Hebrew: גט, plural gittin גיטין) is a divorce document in Jewish religious law, which must be presented by a husband to his wife to effect their divorce. The essential part of the get is very short; the text is "You are hereby permitted to all men", which means that the wife is no longer a married woman and that the laws of adultery no longer apply. The get also returns to the wife the legal rights that a husband holds in regard to her in a Jewish marriage.
Etymology
The biblical term for the divorce document, described in Deuteronomy 24, is "Sefer Keritut", (Hebrew: ספר כריתת). The word get may have its origins in the Sumerian word for document, GID.DA. It appears to have passed from Sumerian into Akkadian as gittu, and from there into Mishnaic Hebrew. In fact in the Mishnah, get can refer to any legal document although it refers primarily to a divorce document. (Tosefet Beracha to Ki Tisa)
A number of popular etymological speculations were offered by early modern Rabbinic authorities. According to Shiltei Giborim (mentioned in the talmudic dictionary Aruch HaShalem S.V. Get), it refers to the stone agate, which purportedly has some form of anti-magnetic property symbolizing the divorce. The Gaon of Vilna posits that the Hebrew letters of Gimel and Tet of the word get are the only letters of the Hebrew alphabet that cannot make a word together, again symbolizing the divorce. Rabbi Baruch Epstein states that it comes from the Latin word gestus "action, gesture", which refers to any legal document. Marcus Jastrow posits a Semitic root, arguing that it derives from the Hebrew word for engraving (Hebrew: חטט).
