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with regard to the minimum age at which these signs are taken into consideration. In other words, there is a lower limit, as any signs of puberty before a certain age are ignored.
As it is taught in a baraita: Everyone agrees with regard to a nine-year-old boy who developed two pubic hairs that this is not considered a sign of adulthood, as they are treated as hairs that grow on a mole. From the age of 9 years and one day until the age of 12 years and one day, even if they a
Rav Sheshet raises an objection: It is taught in a baraita that R' Shimon says: There are 4 different ways of emancipating slaves, and when they are emancipated one grants them a severance gift. Of these, 3 apply to a man, i.e., a Hebrew slave, and 3 apply to a woman, a Hebrew female slave. And
The Talmud clarifies the difficulty: And if it is so that a Hebrew female slave acquires herself through her father’s death, as claimed by Reish Lakish, let him teach also that a Hebrew female slave is emancipated at the death of the father. And if you would say, here too he taught some differences
And if you would say that here, too, this is in accordance with the opinion of Rav Safra, that signs have a minimum set time, there is still the death of the master, which does not have a set time, and yet he taught it. The Talmud answers: The death of the master is not taught either, i.e., this