[Avodah] Freeing a Slave

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 05:50:15PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> Freeing a slave is a value which motivates a qulah.
>
> What?!  How did you jump to *that* conclusion?  Seriously, how do you
> see any sort of value statement in R Yudan's answer? ...

Because we don't make exceptions to the rule to enable things we don't
want done.

...
> Also, how is this a kulah?  It's easy on the slave, but hard on the lender!
> I see nothing on the page about leniency, merely a value-free statement
> that an eved is easy to free...

The word on the page is "qal".

-Micha