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is the matter different? In both cases she is fully released from her father’s authority by Torah law, and therefore he should not be able to sell her again afterward.
The Talmud asks: And according to the explanation of Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak, who says that even according to R' Yosei, son of R' Yehuda, the original money of the sale of the female slave was given for the purpose of betrothal, in accordance with whose opinion does he establish the baraita that perm
§ Reish Lakish raises a dilemma: With regard to the possibility that a person can designate a Hebrew female slave for his minor son, what is the halakha? The Talmud clarifies the sides of this dilemma. Does one learn from the verse: “And if he designates her for his son” (Exodus 21:9), that God sta
R' Zeira said: Come and hear a solution to this dilemma from the verse: “And the man who commits adultery with the wife of another man, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death” (Leviticus 20:10). The rabbis expounded
The Talmud challenges this proof: But rather, what will you say, that a master cannot designate a female slave for his son who is a minor? If so, why does the verse exclude him? If the marriage of a minor is never valid, why is it necessary for the verse to exclude him? On the contrary, resolve fro