Jewish%20thought for Gittin 92:18

ההוא גברא דזבין נפשיה ללודאי אתא לקמיה דרבי אמי אמר ליה

and in the case [of a vow] which does not require [investigation] he concurs with R. Meir.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the husband will be fully cognisant of the kind of vow which he can annul, and so in this case also there is no likelihood of his making trouble. Where, however, there is a possibility of his making trouble, R. Judah will agree that we have to provide against it. ');">¹⁵</span> Raba said: Is there a contradiction between the statements of R. Judah and no contradiction between the statements of the Rabbis?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They seem to contradict themselves as much as R. Judah. ');">¹⁶</span> — No, said Raba; Between the statements of R. Judah there is no contradiction, as has been explained. Between the statements of the Rabbis there is also no contradiction. For who are the Sages [here]? R. Meir, who said that we require the condition to be duplicated,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., expressed both positively and negatively. V. infra, 75a. ');">¹⁷</span> and here we are dealing with a case where he did not duplicate his condition.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., he did not say 'I divorce you because you are barren, and if you are not barren this is no Get', so that the condition has no effect upon the Get. ');">¹⁸</span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF A MAN SELLS HIMSELF AND HIS CHILDREN TO A HEATHEN, HE IS NOT TO BE REDEEMED. HIS CHILDREN, HOWEVER, ARE TO BE REDEEMED AFTER THE DEATH OF THEIR FATHER. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. R. Assi said: This rule applies only if he sold himself a second and a third time. Certain [Jews of] Bemekse<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [A frontier town on the South-western border of Babylon. (Obermeyer. op. cit. p. 334)]- ');">¹⁹</span> borrowed money from heathens, and when they were unable to pay the latter seized them for slaves. They appealed to R. Huna, who said: What can I do, seeing that we have learnt IF A MAN SELLS HIMSELF AND HIS CHILDREN TO A HEATHEN HE IS NOT TO BE REDEEMED? R. Abba thereupon said to him: You have taught us, Master, that this applies only if he has so sold himself a second and a third time. R. Huna replied: These men do this habitually. A certain man sold himself to the Lydians<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] A tribe of cannibals (Rashi). [Or 'ludarii' [ludi], people who arrange and hire men for gladiatorial contests to kill off with the finishing stroke the enraged beasts; v. Graetz, Geschichte, IV, p. 238, and Krauss, AT, I. p. 701.] ');">²⁰</span> and then appealed to R. Ammi saying,

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