Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud for Keritot 21:69

כי לא חופשה מכלל דהוא חופש

Jerusalem Talmud Kiddushin

Can she145The ḥăruphah slave girl, to be able to sleep with whomever she pleases. regain her autonomy through her master’s death or by the end of six [years]? What is the problem? Following Rebbi Aqiba? But Rebbi Aqiba said that the verse speaks about a woman half slave and half free engaged to be married by a free man146Babli Keritut 11a. Her situation can be remedied only by her full manumission, Mishnah Giṭṭin 4:5.. Therefore, his problem is following Rebbi Ismael, since Rebbi Ismael said that the verse speaks about a Canaanite147Meaning: originally Gentile. slave girl married to a Hebrew slave, since this is marriage sanctioned by the Torah: “If his master give him a wife.148Ex. 21:4. Since the children born from this union are slaves, the woman cannot be a Hebrew slave girl. Since the woman is called “wife”, she is required to be faithful by biblical standards. The question is whether this kind of marriage is terminated automatically, without any formality, at the moment the Hebrew slave regains his freedom. At the same moment, the slave woman becomes forbidden to him since any sexual relations between people who could not legally be married is qualified as qādēš(Deut. 23:18).” But his problem is whether she regains her autonomy through her master’s death or by the end of six [years] for him who says that the Hebrew slave does not serve the heir149As explained in the next Halakhah. The question is not answered since it can never arise in the future (Note 152)..
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