Study Kiddushin folio 16A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
This indicates that the verse is stated with regard to a non-Jew who is under your authority, i.e., one who is subject to Jewish rule. Or perhaps you will say that the verse is stated only with regard to a non-Jew who is not under your authority. This is not possible, as you say: But what can be d
§ The Mishnah teaches: A Hebrew slave can be acquired by his master through money or through a document. The Talmud asks: From where do we derive that he can be acquired through a document? Ulla said: The verse states with regard to a Hebrew female slave: “If he takes himself another wife” (Exodus
The Talmud asks: This works out well according to the one who says that the master writes the document of a Hebrew female slave, just as a betrothal document is written by the husband. But according the one who says that the father writes it, in the manner of a document of sale, what can be said?
Rav Aḥa bar Ya’akov said that this halakha is derived from a different source. The verse states with regard to a Hebrew female slave: “She shall not go out as the men slaves do” (Exodus 21:7). One can infer: But she can be acquired in the manner of the acquisition of Canaanite male slaves. And what
The Talmud asks: But one can say that the inference should be a different one: But she can be acquired in the manner of the acquisition of Canaanite male slaves, and what is this mode of acquisition? It is possession. The Talmud answers that one cannot interpret that verse in this manner, as the ve