Kiddushin, Daf Vav, Part 5

 

Introduction

Today s sugya continues to discuss valid formulas for manumitting a slave.

 

א"ל רבינא לרב אשי אמר לעבדו אין לי עסק בך מאי מי אמרינן אין לי עסק בך לגמרי קא"ל או דילמא למלאכה קאמר ליה

 

Ravina asked R. Ashi: What if he says to his slave, I have no dealing with you ? Do we say, he means, I have absolutely no dealing with you or perhaps he says it to him about work?

 

If the master says I have no dealing with you to his slave does he mean that he wants to free his slave completely, or that he simply does not want to benefit from the slave s work?

 

א"ל ר"נ לרב אשי ואמרי לה רב חנין מחוזאה לרב אשי ת"ש המוכר עבדו לעובד כוכבים יצא לחירות וצריך גט שחרור מרבו ראשון אמר רשב"ג בד"א שלא כתב עליו אונו אבל כתב עליו אונו זהו שחרורו ה"ד אונו אמר רב ששת דכתב ליה כשתברח ממנו אין לי עסק בך :

 

R. Nahman said to R. Ashi, and others say R. Huna of Hoza’ah to R. Ashi: Come and hear: If one sells his slave to a non-Jew, he goes free, and requires a deed of manumission from his first master. R. Shimon b. Gamaliel: When is this so? If the seller did not make out for him an ono ; but if he did, that is his [deed of] manumission.

What is an ono ? R. Shesheth said: If he wrote for him, If you escape from him [the non-Jewish buyer], I have no dealings with you.

 

R. Nahman brings proof from a statement of R. Sheshet that I have no dealing with you is full emancipation. R. Sheshet interpreted a word in a statement by Rabban Shimon b. Gamaliel to mean that if an owner sells a slave to a non-Jew, and writes a document that says If you run away from your new owner, I do not have any dealings with you then the owner need not write out any other deed of manumission. Thus I do not have any dealings with you is itself a deed of manumission.