[Avodah] Freeing a Slave

[Zev Sero]

On 1/08/2011 10:06 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> 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.

What exception?!  Where do you see an  exception?!



>> 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".

Yes.  What has that got to do with "qulah", other than deriving from the
same shoresh?

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