[Avodah] Freeing a Slave

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:55:10AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> 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?!

That's the whole point of the answer. We can't ask a question from an
eved to chameitz bepesach, because the case of shikhrur eved is a special
qulah. And the gemara notes that in fact the collateral holder doesn't
have enough baalus to sell the eved, which is the norm we can compare
to the lack of baalus over the chameitz.

>>> 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?

Bavli Aramaic uses "qulah", the Y-mi dialect uses "qal".

Similar logic is found on Taanis 4:1 (18b) where the Y-mi also dismisses
a comparison between two cases by saying that one is a special qulah,
"qal hiqilu alav mipenei ta'aniso".

Here, it's not spelled out in as many words, but clearly from the flow
the same point. As the Qorban haEdah (d"h "qal hu beshikhrur") "hiqhilu
chakhamim beshikhrur, daa"p delo shelo hu legamrei..." And the Penei Moshe
(same d"h), "... shani beshikhrur" -- note, "shani", an exception --
"shehiqilu bo ..."

-Micha

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