Commentary for Kiddushin 33:2
אמר רב ששת הכא במאי עסקינן כגון שברח ופגע בו יובל מהו דתימא הואיל ואפיק ליה יובל שילוחו מעמך קרינן ביה ולא ניקנסיה ונעניק ליה קמ"ל
Therefore we are informed [that it is not so]. The Master said: 'I might think, even if he fell sick, therefore it is stated: "and in the seventh he shall free ".' Even if he was sick the whole of the six [years]?
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
We might have thought that in the case where a slave runs away and then the Jubilee arrives he does get a gift, since the Jubilee would have set him free under all circumstances, and indeed, means that he does not need to complete his term of servitude. Therefore, the baraita comes to teach us that he does not receive a gift since he ran away and was not sent away by the Jubilee.
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