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he is emancipated. R' Yoḥanan said to R' Zeira: You possess such an extreme halakha, but I teach this halakha: With regard to one who writes a document of betrothal for his female slave, stating: You are hereby betrothed to me, R' Meir says: She is betrothed, and the Rabbis say: She is not betrothe
The Talmud answers: Just as that which Rabba bar Rav Sheila says in a different context, that R' Yehoshua ben Levi is referring to a case where a slave’s master placed tefillin on him, here too, the context of R' Zeira’s statement is not that of a slave who married a woman in his master’s presence
The Talmud questions this answer: Is there anything like this, where for his slave he would not violate a prohibition, and by providing a wife for his slave he indicates that he must have emancipated the slave, but he himself might violate the prohibition, as he is suspected of marrying his female
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: With what are we dealing here? This is a case where he said to the female slave when he gave her the document of betrothal: Become emancipated with this and become betrothed to me with this. R' Meir holds that this formulation written in the document of betrothal: You a
With regard to this issue, R' Yehoshua ben Levi says: A slave who dons tefillin in the presence of his master is emancipated, as this is unusual behavior for a slave because slaves are not obligated in this mitzva. The Talmud raises an objection from a baraita: If a slave’s master borrowed money fr