Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 45:16

בעי רבה

Through the agency of others too, and we are thus informed that it is to the slave's advantage to leave his master for freedom: if so, they should be combined and taught together: By money and by deed through the agency of others or his own? - But [it means this:] By money, both through the agency of others and his own; by deed, through the agency of others but not his own, and it agrees with R'Simeon B'Eleazar. For it was taught: R'Simeon B'Eleazar said: By deed too only through the agency of others, but not his own.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He does not hold that the deed and his rights of acquisition come simultaneously.');">¹⁴</span> Thus there are three differing opinions in the matter.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' (i) R. Meir: By money, through the agency of others, even without his knowledge, but not through his own; and by deed through his own agency but not of others. (ii) R. Simeon b. Eleazar: Both by money and deed, through the agency of others but not his own. (iii) The Rabbis in our Mishnah: Both by money and deed, through the agency of others and his own. Hence both are not combined because the second clause is not the Rabbis' statement but R. Simeon b. Eleazar's.');">¹⁵</span> Rabbah said: What is R'Simeon B'Eleazar's reason? - He learns the meaning of 'lah' [to her] here from a [married] woman:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Here: a bondmaid . . whose freedom was not given (to) her (lah) - Lev. XIX, 20; a married woman; then he shall write (to) her (lah) a bill of divorcement; Deut. XXIV, 1.');">¹⁶</span> just as a woman [is not freed] until she withdraws the divorce into a domain that is not his [her husband's],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As it is written, and give it in her hand (ibid.) , and she does not belong bodily to her husband.');">¹⁷</span> so a slave too [is not freed] until he withdraws his deed [of emancipation] into a domain that is not his [the master's]. Rabbah propounded:

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