Commentary for Kiddushin 48:7
המכריעים לפני חכמים אומרים נראין דברי ר"ט בשן ועין שהתורה זכתה לו ודברי ר"ע בשאר אברים הואיל וקנס חכמים הוא קנס הוא קראי קא דרשינן אלא הואיל ומדרש חכמים הוא
Our Rabbis taught: On account of all these<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., the twenty-four projecting limbs.');"><sup>14</sup></span> a slave gains his freedom, yet he needs a deed of emancipation:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To legalise his marriage with a free Jewess.');"><sup>15</sup></span> this is R'Simeon's opinion.
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
This baraita contains a dispute over whether the slave being emancipated because his master put out his eye, tooth or other major limb, needs a deed of emancipation. The number of sages who participate is somewhat unusual. In the end, a compromise seems to have been reached. Since tooth and eye are mentioned explicitly in the Torah, the slave does not need a deed of emancipation. But for the other limbs, which are only derived through a midrash, he does.
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