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Topics covered:

Chapter 1, Mishna 2

What if Hebrew slave flees before six years of servitude are up? What happens if slave is sick and unable to work? What does it mean for someone to “give my value” to the Temple? What do you have to give your slave when he goes free? What is Hebrew slave worth? How are valuations made? How does slave bless a family? Why does Torah mention wine press, threshing floor and flock re the severance gift to a Hebrew slave? How does Torah speak the language of people?

What happens to Hebrew slave whose master dies? Is he inherited by master’s relative? What if slave is pierced? What is legal relationship between convert and his birth parents?

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