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I am ready to answer any questions put to me like those of the intellectually sharp ben Azzai, who would regularly expound in the markets of Tiberias. One of the rabbis said to Abaye: The verses discussing the redemption of a Hebrew slave can be interpreted as a leniency for the slave, and they ca
Abaye explained: Such a possibility should not enter your mind, due to the fact that God was explicitly lenient with regard to a slave. As it is taught in a baraita: The verse states with regard to a Hebrew slave: “And it shall be, if he says to you I will not leave you…because he fares well with yo
That Sage raised an objection to Abaye: On the contrary, let us impose a stringency upon the slave, due to the statement of R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina. As R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, says in explanation of the juxtaposition of several passages in the Torah (Leviticus, chapter 25): Come and see how s
R' Yosei, son of R' Ḥanina, continues: If a person has commercial dealings with produce of the Sabbatical Year or of the Jubilee Year, ultimately he will become so poor that he will be compelled to sell his movable property, as it is stated: “In this Jubilee Year you shall return every man to his po
If he does not feel remorse and he does not repent, ultimately he will be compelled to sell his fields, as it is stated in an adjacent verse: “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his ancestral land” (Leviticus 25:25).