Commentary for Kiddushin 31:10
ביובל : דכתיב (ויקרא כה, מ) עד שנת היובל יעבד עמך :
- If so, Scripture should have written: 'she shall not go out as menservants'; why, as the going out of menservants?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., translation.');"><sup>19</sup></span> That both may be inferred.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The law itself, as stated by R. Huna; while the emphasis on going out' shews that she may, however, come in, i.e., be acquired as they are.');"><sup>20</sup></span> AND ACQUIRES HIMSELF BY YEARS.
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
A slave may also go free by essentially buying himself back. This is done by dividing the purchase money into the number of years of acquisition. Then the amount the person has worked is reduced, the slave pays back the rest and goes free.
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