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but the non-Jews cannot acquire one of you, as they do not have the ability to acquire a Jew as a slave, and they cannot acquire each other as slaves. The Talmud begins to introduce a question: One might have thought that they shall not be able to acquire each other. The Talmud immediately clarifi
The Talmud now restates the question: One might have thought that they shall not be able to acquire each other as slaves even for the rights to his labor. The Talmud answers: You can say an a fortiori inference: If a non-Jew can acquire a Jew for the rights to his labor, as stated explicitly in the
The Talmud challenges: But I could say that this halakha, that a non-Jew can acquire a non-Jew as a slave for the rights to his labor, applies only to acquisition via money. However, via an act of possession, by taking him captive, he does not acquire him. Rav Pappa says in response: The land of Am
The Talmud asks: We found a source for a non-Jew acquiring a non-Jew through conquest, which is an act of taking possession; from where do we derive that a non-Jew can also acquire a Jew through the act of possession such as conquest? The Talmud answers: As it is written: “And the Canaanites, who d
§ Rav Shemen bar Abba says that R' Yoḥanan says: A slave who escaped from prison is emancipated. He is no longer subjugated to his owner, as it is assumed that his owner has despaired of retrieving him. And moreover, his master is forced to write him a bill of manumission so that he can marry a Jew