Commentary for Kiddushin 42:15
א"ל רב נחמן לרב ענן כי הויתו בי מר שמואל באיסקומדרי איטלליתו מ"ט לא תימרו לי' מהא וחכ"א אין עבד עברי כהן נרצע מפני שנעשה בעל מום
R'Eleazar said: Judan Berabbi used to expound: When it [his ear] was bored, only the lobe was bored. But the Sages maintained: A Hebrew slave [who is] a priest, cannot be bored, because he is thereby blemished.' Then let him be blemished! - Rabbah son of R'Shila said: Scripture saith, and he shall return unto his own family:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXV, 41.');"><sup>20</sup></span>
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
R. Nahman ridicules R. Anan for not being able to prove that a master can give the priest slave a female slave as a wife. The rabbis say that all of the laws of the Hebrew slave, including where he has his ear bored, must apply to the priest. But if he could not take a non-Jewish slave as a wife, how could he say, “I love my…wife.” This statement proves that all Hebrew slaves, even priests, may marry non-Jewish slaves.
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