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Redeem me. R' Ami said to him: We learned in a Mishnah: With regard to one who sells himself and his children as slaves to non-Jews, he is not redeemed. However, his children are redeemed due to the harm of becoming assimilated among the non-Jews, and all the more so here, where there is a concern
The rabbis said to R' Ami: This man is a Jewish apostate, as they saw him when he was eating unslaughtered animal carcasses and animals with a wound that will cause them to die within 12 months [tereifot]. He said to them: Say that he was eating them due to his appetite, not because he is an aposta
They said to him: But there are times when there are permitted and forbidden foods before him, and he sets aside the permitted food and eats the forbidden food, indicating that it is not temptation alone that causes him to transgress. Once he heard this, R' Ami said to that man: Go, because they do
The Talmud recounts a related incident: Reish Lakish sold himself to gladiators. He took a bag and a round stone inside of it with him. He said: There is a tradition that on the final day of a captive’s life, before his captors kill him, they do for him anything that he requests of them, so that he
On the final day before they were set to kill him they said to him: What is amenable to you? He said to them: I want to tie you up and have you sit, and I will strike each one of you 1½ times. He tied them up and had each one of them sit. When he struck each of them with one strike with the stone in