Kiddushin 24 - September 6, 20 Elul

Study Guide Kiddushin 24 Today's daf is sponsored by Judy Shapiro for the 10th yahrzeit of her mother Deera Tychman, z"l". Today's daf is sponsored for the refuah shleima of Shlomo Gavriel Ben Esther. The rabbis and Rabbi Meir disagree regarding a non-Jewish slave about whether or not there is a way to give him money that will not automatically be transferred to his master (for the purposes of him using the money to free himself). The Gemara brings a source regarding a woman taking tithes on her husband's produce and shows that the opinions of Rabbi Meir and the rabbis on that issue seem to contradict what each of them holds in the case of the slave. Abaye and Rava each resolve the contradiction in a different manner. A non-Jewish slave is redeemed if the master knocks out his tooth, his eye or certain extremities of his body that do not regenerate.  The derivation of these laws from the verses in the Torah is discussed. Does the slave go free if the eye is not knocked out but is non-functional or if was not functional before but the master actually knocked it out? What if the master was a doctor and damaged the eye/dentist and knocked out a tooth while performing a procedure that the slave requested?