Commentary for Kiddushin 42:16
וא"ת אין רבו מוסר לו שפחה כנענית תיפוק לי דבעינא (שמות כא, ה) אהבתי את אדוני את אשתי ואת בני וליכא תו לא מידי
i.e., to the established rights of his family.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But if he is bored, he loses his established rights of officiating in the Temple.');"><sup>21</sup></span> The Scholars propounded: A Hebrew slave [who is] a priest - can his master give him a heathen bondwoman?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To produce slaves.');"><sup>22</sup></span> Is it an anomaly,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That a heathen bondwoman may be given to any Hebrew slave.');"><sup>23</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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