How does one honor a parent in death? What is the difference between fear and honor of parents? Is the financial responsibility also on the child? Or is one to take money from the parent? If a parent or a teacher or a nasi or a king is willing to forego respect for him/herself, can he/she? The obligation to respect elders – is it those who are Torah scholars or those who are old in years? or those who are both?
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Is there a difference between and man and woman in terms of their obligation to honor their parents? How is the commandment to honor your parents linked to the commandment to honor God? The story of Dama ben Netina and others who fulfilled the mitzva of respecting their parents is brought. Some are praised and others criticized.
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What are the ideals ages when a child will listen to his parents? Is a grandfather obligated to teach his grandson Torah? Different drashot are extrapolated on the word “Veshinantam” relating to what and how one should learn Torah. Drashot are also brought that teach that learning Torah is meant as protection from the evil inclination. The gemara continues to disucuss the various other obligations a man has toward his son – marrying him off, teaching him a trade and how to swim.
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When one is obligated to swear about something, we can have him swear about something else that if it stod on its own, he would not be obligated to swear. What is the derivation of this law and in what cases does it apply? Items acquired through bartering are discussed – kinyan chalipin. Can this be done with money? Produce? Or only keilim, vessels? Items acquired by the temple treasury have different laws than regular items. Regular items can only be acquired through pulling while temple items are acquired with money. Designating something with words for the treasury is as if it was pulled.
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Details regarding how and when and kinyan agav can be effected. This is a case where one acquired land at the same time as he is acquiring movable property and he can acquire the land and automatically the movable items are acquired also even though the method by which he acquired the land is not a method that would generally work for movable property. What is the source for gilgul shvua? This means that if you are obligated to swear about one thing, we can obligate you at the same time to swear about other things that you would not otherwise be obligated to swear about.
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Land and movable property each have different mechanisms by which they can be acquired. The methods and their derivation are discussed.
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There is a discussion relating to which types of blemishes are considered noticeable that a slave would go free if the master caused it. Arguments surround the cases of castrated testicles and the tongue. Sources are brought from other areas of halacha where revealed blemishes are discussed. The mishna discusses how larger and smaller animals are acquired. The gemara raises a question according to a tanna who requires lifting the animal: how can an elephant be acquired?
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The gemara resolves a contradiction between the opinions of Rabbi Meir and the rabbis in the case of freeing a non Jewish slave with money to their opinions in a seemingly similar case regarding redeeming maaser sheni. A non Jewish slave is redeemed if you knock out a tooth, an eye or certain extremities of his body. The derivation of these laws from the verses in the Torah are discussed. Does the slave go free if the eye is not knocked out but is non functional or it was not functional before but the master actually knocked it out? What if the master was a doctor and damaged the eye while performing a surgical procedure?
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A non Jewish slave is freed by money or by a document. Is it a benefit for a non Jewish slave to be redeemed or not? Does anything he receives while in slavery automatically become his owner’s? If so, how can he be redeemed? How will he have money to pay his way out? And how can he receive a document saying he will be free if he is an extension of the owner and therefore anything he receives goes straight to the owner in which case he can’t receive the document? There is a 3 way argument over how the slave can be freed and the argument is affected by how they hold on the various issues mentioned above.
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Comparisons are made between the laws learned in the various sections in Vayikra chaprter 25 and 27 regarding selling and redemption of land, houses, Jewish slaves sold to non Jews and to Jews, and land promised to the beit hamikdash. Sources are brought to teach various laws regarding a slave who gets his ear pierced because he wants to stay with his master after working for 6 years.
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