[Avodah] eved kenani

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:
> <<If one captures a slave, is he not automatically given the status of a
> woman vis-a-vis Mitzvah obligation? This is what I aways assumed when
> learning those sugyos in the Gemarah dealing with Avodim.

No.  He must be mekabel ol mitzvot.


> I can't imagine first asking a slave if he will be Mekabel the Ol Mitzvos
>  just before we capture him. I thought capturing him made him
> automatically obligated -  whether he or she likes it or not.

No.


> We all know the various questions that arise with a person who is half an
> eved kenani and half a Jew because one of two owners freed the slave.
> I recently saw a question concerning someone who is half Jewish and half
> non-Jewish. How is that possible?
> The case is again an eved kenani with 2 owners. However, now the eved kenani
> refuses to keep mitzvot. Thus he has a din of a nonJew not an eved kenani.
> When one owner frees him he is half Jewish and half nonJewish.

How is he half Jewish? If he was never mekabel ol mitzvot then he's
not at all Jewish, and if he was then he's half-eved-half-ben-chorin
no matter what he currently says.


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