Commentary for Gittin 80:11

כדרבא דאמר רבא הקדש חמץ ושחרור מפקיעין מידי שיעבוד אלא מפני תיקון העולם שמא ימצאנו בשוק

[FOR A DEBT] TO ANOTHER MAN AND HE EMANCIPATES HIM, IN STRICT JUSTICE THE SLAVE IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANYTHING, BUT TO PREVENT ABUSES<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'for the better ordering of the world'. ');">¹⁰</span> HIS MASTER IS COMPELLED TO EMANCIPATE HIM. AND HE GIVES A BOND FOR HIS PURCHASE PRICE. RABBAN SIMEON B. GAMALIEL SAYS THAT HE DOES NOT GIVE A BOND BUT HE EMANCIPATES HIM.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The whole of this Mishnah is explained in the Gemara. ');">¹¹</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. IF A MAN MAKES HIS SLAVE SECURITY FOR A DEBT AND HE EMANCIPATES HIM. Who emancipates him? — Rab says, his first master. In strict justice the slave is then not liable for anything to his second master, according to the dictum of Raba, that 'sanctification,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If a man pledges an animal as security and then devotes it for a sacrifice. ');">¹²</span> leaven,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If a man borrows from a Gentile on the security of leaven and the Passover intervenes, rendering the leaven forbidden for use. ');">¹³</span> and emancipation release from a creditor's lien.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. B.K. 90a. ');">¹⁴</span> To prevent abuses, however, [that is to say, for fear] lest he should find him in the street

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